This paper has the goal of presenting the first comprehensive update of poverty, inequality and shared prosperity trends – and key drivers of these trends – since 2003 until 2015, that is starting with the end of the most recent poverty assessment published in 2004 and that covered the...

It is often argued that macroeconomic instability can form a binding constraint on economic growth. Drawing on a new index of stability, threshold estimation is used to divide developing economies into two growth regimes, depending on a threshold level of stability. For the more stable group of...

This paper's aim is to provide a different standpoint in the development debate, by focusing on the short-sightedness of the international institutions when they propose a development agenda. Focusing on macroeconomic performance and on privatisation, they have found a solution in PPPs, which...

1. Twenty years of economic reform and structural change in the Chinese economy / Ross Garnaut -- 2. Economic growth over the past twenty years / Xiaolu Wang -- 3. Agricultural reform / Yongzheng Yang -- 4. Trade reform and development / Ligang Song-- 5. State-owned enterprise reform / Yiping...