development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …

promote inclusive development or advance the public interest. Property rights were extremely limited, and administrative power … services were largely unavailable outside of a few major cities. This unbalanced development pattern gave rise to vast … the complete collapse of both the state and the economy, derailing Liberia's development and compounding its already …

Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of …

This paper evaluates the effect of development project aid from the World Bank and China on firms' sales growth, using …

Finance and Financial Sector Development …

There have been substantial improvements in development outcomes in Afghanistan since 2001, particularly in terms of … improved access to basic services such as water, sanitation, and electricity, and increased human development in education and … development. For economic growth to have any impact on poverty, it has to be particularly high and broad based to compensate for …

official development assistance (ODA) for agriculture could generate, contrary to traditional Dutch disease concerns, an …