Enabling Trade: Valuing Growth Opportunities
This report from the World Economic Forum finds that reducing supply chain barriers can increase global GDP up to 6 times more than removing all import tariffs. Tags: 2013, Document, Economic...
View ArticleNetwork Proximity and Business Practices in African Manufacturing
This World Bank report finds that the diffusion of technology and new business practices may play a more limited role in spurring growth in Africa's manufacturing sector than is often assumed in the...
View ArticleAssessing Private Sector Contributions to Job Creation and Poverty Reduction
This report from the IFC examines how and under what conditions the private sector can best contribute to job creation and poverty reduction. Tags: 2013, Document, Economic Development, IFC, Job...
View ArticleOil-to-Cash Won't Work Here! Ten Common Objections
This paper from CGD lists—and attempts to address—the most serious objections to Oil-to-Cash programs. Tags: 2013, CGD, Document, Economic Development, Extractive Industries, Natural Resource...
View ArticleA New Deal? Development and Security in a Changing World
Development stakeholders need to invest more in understanding local realities, politics and power. This report from IDS proposes a 'new deal' based on concepts of entrustment and brokerage to help...
View ArticleAdvancing Stability and Reconciliation in Guinea-Bissau: Lessons from...
This report from the ACSS outlines the necessary reforms to deal with the social, economic and political challenges resulting from narco-trafficking in Guinea-Bissau. Tags: 2013, ACSS, Business and...
View ArticleStill Digging: Extractive Industries, Resource Curses, and Transnational...
In this paper from the Transatlantic Academy, Stacy VanDeever discusses resource competition in the Anthropocene. Tags: 2013, Document, Economic Development, Economics of Conflict, Environment,...
View ArticleThe Private Sector in Postrevolution Egypt
This report from the Carnegie Middle East Center calls for greater collaboration between the private sector, the government, and civil society organizations, in order to avert an economic crisis and...
View ArticleRethinking Absorptive Capacity: A New Framework, Applied to Afghanistan’s...
This CSIS report offers a draft framework for measuring absorptive capacity, or the amount and form of international aid and attention that recipient institutions and societies can receive without...
View ArticleIs Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa Different?
This World Bank paper analyzes whether increased urbanization is economically appropriate for Africa as it has been for other regions. Tags: 2013, Africa (Sub-Sahara), Document, Economic Development,...
View ArticleA General Equilibrium Model for Analyzing African Rural Subsistence Economies...
This Brookings paper written by John McArthur and Jeffrey Sachs analyzes how foreign aid can support economic growth in Africa by first assess those living in rural poverty. Tags: 2013, Africa...
View ArticleStress-Testing Africa's Recent Growth and Poverty Performance
This paper from the World Bank evaluates the sustainability and strength of Africa's recent economic performance. Tags: 2013, Africa (Sub-Sahara), Document, Economic Development, Poverty, World...
View ArticleAid, Disbursement Delays, and the Real Exchange Rate
This World Bank paper provides new evidence of the dynamic effects of aid on the real exchange rate, using an identification strategy that exploits the long delays between the approval of aid projects...
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Managing Price Risk in Local Food Reserves: Analyzing the Prospects for a...
Feature Description: This Oxfam report analyzes a way to help local food reserves overcome their vulnerability to price cycle inversions. This research report from Oxfam analyzes the possibility of...
View ArticleLocalizing Aid: A Whole of Society Approach
In this report from ODI, the authors advocate for a holistic relationship when administering foreign aid. Tags: 2013, Africa (Sub-Sahara), Aid Effectiveness, Central America, Document, Economic...
View ArticlePrioritizing Rural Investments in Africa: A Hybrid Evaluation Approach...
This paper from UNU-WIDER presents a ‘hybrid’ approach that combines ex post evaluation data with an economy-wide model for experimenting ex ante with alternative investment portfolios within a...
View ArticleThe Global Partnership for Inclusive Growth
This paper from UNU-WIDER investigates the determinants of inclusive growth with a focus on foreign aid. Tags: 2013, Document, Economic Development, Foreign Aid, Inclusive Growth, Poverty,...
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Political Economy Synthesis: The Food Policy Crisis
Feature Description: This paper from UNU-WIDER discusses the contradictions in food policy during the most recent food price crisis. This paper from UNU-WIDER discusses the contradictions in food...
View ArticleIFAD 2012 Annual Report
The report describes IFAD's work through 255 projects within 97 countries and highlights areas of thematic engagement including: natural resources and biodiversity; climate change adaptation; improved...
View ArticleCopper, Coal, and Conflicts: Resources and Resource Extraction in Asia
In this issue, authors report on conflicts stemming from coal and copper mining and how the traditional economic models and ways of life of indigenous populations suffer from the unrestrained...
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