We examine the case for donors providing financial incentives to NGOs to increase community participation. We show that, when such incentives are provided, there need not exist any meaningful relationship between beneficiary welfare and the extent of community participation implemented by an...

This paper on Trade Agreements within SSA, is an assessment of the ex post bilateral trade effect of the European Union-African Caribbean Pacific Preferential Trade Agreement (EU-ACP PTA) and sub-regional regional trade agreements (RTAs) on bilateral trade involving SSA countries. The main...

Recent research on exchange rate regimes has stressed the similarity amongst intermediate regimes (managed floats and "soft" pegs) rather than the traditional peg/float dichotomy. We investigate the choice of regime amongst hard pegs, soft pegs, managed floats and independent floats for a panel...