The Belo Monte hydropower scheme on the River Xingu in Brazilian Amazonia symbolizes the persistent contradictions … battled with the energy authorities, contesting the top-down planning approach regularly applied in Brazilian infrastructure … groups, especially poorer agricultural and indigenous populations. More transparent and democratic planning procedures are …

This paper relates the processes of strategic planning in London during the first decade of an executive Mayoral system … proposition that without effective fiscal autonomy in planning for infrastructure provision, the need to manage diplomatic … strategic planning is concerned. An inability to face up to this complexity, particularly in relation to cross-border relations …

planning for land reform in South Africa. As government policy has come increasingly to favor the better-off who are potential …

of development. We document the following regularities. First, as countries develop, their productive structure moves … from more volatile to less volatile sectors. Second, the level of specialization declines with development at early stages …, and slowly increases at later stages of development. Third, the volatility of country-specific macroeconomic shocks falls …

Interactions between economic development and financial development are studied by looking at the roles of financial … institutions in selecting R&D projects (including for both imitation and innovation). Financial development is regarded as the … development stages of an economy. At higher development stages a financing regime with ex post selection capacity is more …

of political freedoms versus economic development. This paper takes a new approach to provide an answer by using micro …

development, is significantly improved. …

of development. We document the following regularities. First, as countries develop, their productive structure moves … from more volatile to less volatile sectors. Second, the level of specialization declines with development at early stages …, and slowly increases at later stages of development. Third, the volatility of country- specific macroeconomic shocks falls …

Interactions between economic development and financial development are studied by looking at the roles of financial … institutions in selecting R&D projects (including for both imitation and innovation). Financial development is regarded as the … development stages of an economy. At higher development stages a financing regime with ex post selection capacity is more …