civil war (particularly in Africa) rather than ‘international’ wars. [Discussion Paper No. 2005/05]. …

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 …

The Overseas Development Institute in the UK recently carried out a study on ICT for rural livelihoods, commissioned by … InfoDev. The study included a literature and donor review in collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies, and … country studies carried out with partners in Argentina, Uruguay, Tanzania, South Africa, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. ICT was …

This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic outcomes in China over a …

12th Five Year Plan is formulated based on Outline of the 12th Five Year Plan for National Economy and Social Development …. The period of the plan is from 2011 to 2015. [Ministry of Commerce, China]. …

reasonably good health the prospects for learning and skill development are bleak … and without that so is our long term future …

This paper reviews the development of the social security system and trends in the urban labor market in the Peopleâ …€™s Republic of China (PRC). Despite its remarkable economic achievement, the PRC faces a difficult path before it can reform and …

other resource countries such as Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, and Indonesia. It is imperative that the bottlenecks in … the development of the mining industry are identified and suitable steps taken to deal with them. …