Collective values, behavioural norms and rules: building institutions for economic growth and poverty reduction / Ke-young Chu -- Institutional capital and poverty: a transition perspective / Syed Ahsan -- Why is so little spent on educating the poor? / Tony Addison and Aminur Rahman -- The...

"Remember the past, but build for the future" : address to the Rwandan National Assembly, Kigali, Rwanda -- Rich, poor should join hands for sustainable development -- A time to act : address to the board of governors at the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund,...

U.S. monetary policy during the 1990s / N. Gregory Mankiw -- Fiscal policy and Social Security policy during the 1990s / Douglas W. Elmendorf, Jeffrey B. Liebman, David W. Wilcox -- Tax policy from 1990 to 2001 / Eugene Steuerle -- Between meltdown and moral hazard : the international monetary...

"This book examines the main factors behind observed poverty changes in eight countries - Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar, Mauritania, Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. After reviewing the trends in income poverty and other, more direct measures of well-being (such as education, health, and...

The dynamics of globalization / Laurence Harris -- Economic policies and external performance in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa / Ernest Aryeetey and Machiko Nissanke -- Governments and external performance in Africa / Beatrice Weder -- Local entrepreneurship in Southeast Asia and...

Introduction : bringing domestic institutions back in / Linda Weiss -- Disappearing taxes or the 'race to the middle'? Fiscal policy in the OECD / John Hobson -- Withering welfare? Globalisation, political economic institutions, and contemporary welfare states / Duane Swank -- Globalisation and...