The paper addresses the issues of contribution of aids towards human development and the efficiency of such aids in … poorer countries, assessing if there is cross-country evidence for an effective human development by financing public …

Seven years after the fall of Taliban Afghanistan has little to show in way of development. Afghanistan remains wholly … dependent on external assistance; nearly 90% of public spending comes from foreign aid. A new report by Agency Coordinating Body … for Afghan Relief (ACBAR) has underlined the failure of development assistance in Afghanistan. The US is Afghanistanâ …

. In doing so, it considers the main channels of transmission, to focus on international trade, investment, finance and …

The paper compares policy responses of China and India to the global requirements of trade and environment regimes as …

Even after five years of after the liberalisation of the investment regime India has failed to attract FDI to come to … the development of the mining industry are identified and suitable steps taken to deal with them. …

This paper studies the impact of services trade liberalization under the currently negotiated EU-India FTA on womenâ …

In this study, two types of aid transfers - boats and houses are examined- that were made to rehabilitate tsunami …

This paper summarises research on aid allocation and effectiveness, highlighting the current findings of recent … research on aid allocation to fragile states. Fragile states are defined by the donor community as those with either critically … of research and analysis on how aid should and is being allocated across all developing countries. Various aid allocation …

It is clear from the implications of growth theory that the impact of aid depends on how it affects savings, investment … and government behaviour. In respect of low-income countries, which are the principal aid recipients and the economies for … which the issue of the impact of aid on growth is most important, it is government that is most important. This paper …

between aid inflows and the public sector borrowing requirement net of aid loans. After examining the public sector budget … constraint and various conditions under which aid might lead to an increase in this borrowing, the paper surveys the empirical … results of literature on aid and public sector fiscal behaviour. It finds that the results of a number of studies are …