Publications

This paper acknowledges a lack of definition of 'poverty reduction' in developing countries despite a healthy debate on how to achieve it. According to the author, poverty reduction is often used as a...chevron_right

This essay considers the future of foreign aid in light of Dambisa Moyo's book "Dead Aid," which argues that western aid to Africa has brought more harm than help. The influx of aid, Moyo contends, a...chevron_right

This paper argues for the need to move from the conventional measure of Official Development Assistance (ODA) to the construction of clearer benchmarks for resources and results that concur to 21st ce...chevron_right

This paper examines how armed conflict is moving into the research mainstream in development economics. The authors describe the most robust findings of this inter-disciplinary field and point the way...chevron_right

This brief examines why the private sector has failed to thrive in much of sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on a set of enterprise surveys, the authors identify inadequate infrastructure and burdensome reg...chevron_right

This paper describes what sparked the fire and the accelerants that made a bad situation nearly catastrophic. Fortuitously, when the flames were raging at peak intensity, rain clouds appeared, the wi...chevron_right

Using the recent period of rising food commodities prices, this paper examines the policy dilemmas and challenges faced by developing country governments when confronted with volatile food prices. I...chevron_right

This paper examines the relationship between structural, high inequality—measured by high levels of schooling inequality—and liberalization of the financial sector for a sample of 37 developing and ...chevron_right

This paper places the supermarket debate in the broader evolution of food policy analysis, which is a framework for integrating household, market, macro and trade issues as they affect hunger and pove...chevron_right

This paper develops alternative scenarios regarding government efforts to expand access to AIDS treatment in order to estimate the future need for antiretroviral treatment in South Asian countries and...chevron_right

What constitutes an effective system of global governance in the new world order of the 21st century? This paper proposes simple yet fundamental criteria - based on global shares of GDP and population...chevron_right

This brief discusses how much official finance is needed to help developing world countries to weather the economic crisis that began in 2008. According to the author, US$1 trillion would be an adequa...chevron_right

This report summarizes the findings of the UNAIDS Leadership Transition Working Group that convened in July 2008 with the mandate to formulate a set of recommendations for the director and coordinatin...chevron_right

This paper discusses the importance of US leadership in promoting global educational advancements through the Education for All-Fast Track Initiative (FTI) and a global fund for education. The author ...chevron_right

In the midst of the talk of billion-dollar bank bailouts and trillion-dollar stimulus packages, it is easy to lose sight of the human face of ordinary people who have become unwitting victims of the f...chevron_right