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Identifying Aid Effectiveness Challenges in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States

Ishihara, Yoichiro - 2012

Fragile and conflict-affected states face daunting challenges for development. Aid has a greater importance on development in these states than in others, and therefore aid effectiveness management and delivery of aid bears serious consideration. Despite its significance, aid effectiveness is...

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Finance, Inequality, and Poverty : Cross-Country Evidence

Beck, Thorsten; Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Levine, Ross - 2013

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...

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Beyond Aid : New Sources and Innovative Mechanisms for Financing Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ratha, Dilip; Mohapatra, Sanket; Plaza, Sonia - 2012

Given Sub-Saharan Africa's enormous resource needs for growth, poverty reduction, and other Millennium Development Goals, the development community has little choice but to continue to explore new sources of financing, innovative private-to-private sector solutions, and public-private...

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Shifting Patterns of Economic Growth and Rethinking Development

Lin, Justin Yifu; Rosenblatt, David - 2012

This paper provides an historical overview of both the evolution of the economic performance of the developing world … between high-income countries and the developing world, with only a limited number (less than 10 percent of the economies in … the world) managing to progress out of lower or middle-income status to high-income status. The last decade witnessed a …

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How Might Climate Change Affect Economic Growth in Developing Countries? A Review of the Growth Literature with a Climate Lens

Lecocq, Franck; Shalizi, Zmarak - 2012

This paper reviews the empirical and theoretical literature on economic growth to examine how the four components of the climate change bill, namely mitigation, proactive (ex ante) adaptation, reactive (ex post) adaptation, and ultimate damages of climate change affect growth, especially in...

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Governance Indicators : Where Are We, Where Should We Be Going?

Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart - 2012

Scholars, policymakers, aid donors, and aid recipients acknowledge the importance of good governance for development. This understanding has spurred an intense interest in more refined, nuanced, and policy-relevant indicators of governance. In this paper we review progress to date in the area of...

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Does Employment Generation Really Matter for Poverty Reduction?

Gutierrez, Catalina; Orecchia, Carlo; Paci, Pierella - 2012

This paper analyzes how the employment/productivity profile of growth and its sectoral pattern are correlated with poverty reduction. The authors use a sample of 104 short-run growth spells in developing countries, between 1980 and 2001. They also identify some conditions of the labor market and...

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Evaluating Recipes for Development Success

Dixit, Avinash - 2012

This paper provides a review of the contradictions and conflicts in the literature on economic governance and sketches an approach to use some of the conceptual and empirical findings from that literature for development policy. The literature offers conflicting conclusions on big questions:...

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Finance and Economic Development : Policy Choices for Developing Countries

Demirg????-Kunt, Asl?? - 2012

-varies sharply around the world, with large differences among countries at similar levels of income. This paper argues that …

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Do Workers??? Remittances Promote Financial Development?

Aggarwal, Reena; Demirg????-Kunt, Asli; Martinez Peria, … - 2012

Workers' remittances to developing countries have become the second largest type of flows after foreign direct investment. The authors use data on workers' remittance flows to 99 developing countries from 1975-2003 to study the impact of remittances on financial sector development. In...

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