Small Developing States (SDS) face substantial challenges in achieving sustainable development. Many of these … countries to the impact of climate change and natural disasters. Meeting SDS sustainable development goals goes hand …-in-hand with building their climate resilience. But the additional costs to meet development and resilience objectives are …

-challenged world, and the importance of infrastructure investment geared toward such systems changes. The key policies to enable the …

Millennium Development Goals set the stage for global support of ambitious development goals behind which the world must rally … achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. The paper examines the role of Islamic financial institutions, capital markets …The Sustainable Development Goals, the global development agenda for 2015 through 2030, will require unprecedented …

While substantial research finds that financial development boosts overall economic growth, the authors study whether … financial development is pro-poor: Does financial development disproportionately raise the income of the poor? Using a broad … cross-country sample, the authors find that the answer is yes: Financial intermediary development reduces income inequality …

restrictions in shaping capital flows at various stages of economic development. We find that, when accounting for the degree of …

specially modified version of the MULTIMOD world economic model. Simulation results indicate that in developing countries the … economic externality due to enhanced trade and lower world interest rates. Accordingly, the net debtor developing country gains …

Multidimensional assessment of human development is increasingly recognized as playing an important role in assessing … well-being. The focus of analysis is on the indicators measuring the three dimensions of Human Development Index (HDI … Sustainable Development. The study estimates the effects of public social spending on gross national income (GNI) per capita (in …