Working Paper

• Public finance
• Food security
• Natural disasters

Research Brief

Even the most optimistic analyses accept that many low-income countries (LICs) will remain low income for some time to come. Consequently, when assessing the policy options available to LICs it is important to take a long term view. In the WIDER...

• Climate change
• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Public finance

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid and Institution-Building in Fragile States

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Public finance
• Natural resources

Working Paper

Public sector reforms are commonplace in developing countries. Much of the literature about these reforms reflects on their failures. This paper asks about the successes and investigates which of two competing theories best explain why some reforms...

• Bureaucracy
• Economic development
• Economic growth

Book

Fiscal policy is critical to the development of poor countries. Public spending on pro-poor services and public goods must be increased, tax revenues must be mobilized, and macro-economic stabilization must be achieved without inhibiting growth...

• Economic development
• Public expenditure
• Public finance

Book Chapter

Part of Book New Sources of Development Finance

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Public finance
• Fiscal policy

Blog

by Pranab K. Bardhan May 2010

It's imperative to demolish myths around the economic achievements of China and India and get a better sense of the real challenges. The author of the...

• Economic development
• Economic growth
• Equality and inequality

Working Paper

Sharing similar colonial and post-independence civil war experiences, Mozambique and Angola’s development paths are often contrasted, with foreign aid-dependent Mozambique hailed a success compared to oil rentier Angola. This paper questions the so...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Elite (Social sciences)
• Public finance

Working Paper

The Yemen Social Fund for Development (SFD) was established in 1997 with the support of the international community, and in particular the World Bank, to combat national poverty and reinforce the limited existing social safety net. Since its...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development
• Economic development projects

Working Paper

The study is an empirical test of the effects of different categories of government expenditure, revenue and deficits on economic growth in developing countries. It is based on panel data of annual series over the last three decades for 103 countries...

• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Public expenditure
• Public finance

Working Paper

This paper combines a theoretical perspective on globalization and the information society with a critical usage of international regime theory in order to contribute to a better understanding of the current historical period of transition from an...

• Economic integration
• Economic policy
• Public finance

Working Paper

• Budget deficits
• Public finance
• Inflation

Working Paper

In analysing proposals for new sources of development funding, there are several issues that arise across the board. What is the role of new sources in relation to existing overseas development assistance? Should we be seeking new sources that...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Public finance
• Fiscal policy

Working Paper

Late 1990, Egypt witnessed major and radical changes in all areas of its national life—political, legal, economic and social—as a reflection of implementing an economic reform programme in order to achieve progress in its economic indicators. This...

• Economic development
• Public finance
• Foreign exchange