The article provides a broad-based overview on competing development strategies and the economic performance of developing countries, mainly since the year 2000. Four traditional mainstream development strategies are discussed (Washington Consensus, neo-liberalism, "good governance" and MDGs)...

Global Development Finance is the World Bank's annual review of global financial conditions facing developing countries. The current volume provides analysis of key trends and prospects, including coverage of capital originating from developing countries themselves. Robust global growth and a...

The dissertation consists of three essays on macroeconomic policy, development economics and economic growth. The first chapter examines empirically the relationship between the cyclical pattern of fiscal policy in democratic developing countries and their quality of political institutions. This...

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The objective of this paper it to provide a critical overview of the economic literature on conflicts and postwar reconstruction since the end of the Cold War. Depsite the enormous human and economic costs of war in the developing world, the contributions of economists to research in this area...

Die zentrale Fragestellung dieses Buches behandelt das Problem, wie neu erzeugtes Wissen aus dem System der Wissenschaft in das ?konomische System gelangen und dort wertsch?pfungsgenerierend appliziert werden kann. Der Handlungsspielraum bzw. die Nutzung neuen Wissens im Wirtschaftssystem sollte...