The book examines the methodological challenges in analyzing the effectiveness of development policies. It presents a selection of tools and methodologies that can help tackle the complexities of which policies work best and why, and how they can be implemented effectively given the political...

1. Introduction -- 2. Foreign Aid Conditionality and Economic Growth -- 3. Types of Aid -- 4. An Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Equity Approach to Examining Subnational Health -- 5. Evaluating Aid Agencies: Challenges, Comparisons, and Causes of Best Aid Practices -- 6. What Influences World...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Whatever happened to the Third World -- Chapter 3: What preceded development economics -- Chapter 4: The first generation of development economists -- Chapter 5: The second generation of development economists -- Chapter 6: Main components of the third...

Chapter 1: Overview of the 2 Sector Mahalanobis Model -- Chapter 2: Critiques of the 2 Sector Mahalanobis Model -- Chapter 3: A Stochastic Version of the 2 Sector Mahalanobis Model -- Chapter 4: Open Economy Extensions of the 2-sector Mahalanobis Model -- Chapter 5: Overview of the 4 Sector...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Are Current Policies on Track to Eliminate Poverty? -- Chapter 3. How Mainstream Economics Works -- Chapter 4. Basic Principles to Understand Macroeconomics -- Chapter 5. Markets Alone Make No Development -- Chapter 6. Developing Countries in Global...

Chapter 1: Microentrepreneurship: An Interdisciplinary View -- Chapter 2: The Spatial Distribution of Self-employment -- Chapter 3: Economic Returns to Occupational Choice -- Chapter 4: Size of New Start-Ups Across Space -- Chapter 5: Firm growth and barriers to growth among small firms in India...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Humanitarian Funding in Crisis and The Rise of Innovative Humanitarian Finance -- Chapter 3: Innovative Vaccine and Immunization Funding: Advance Market Commitment -- Chapter 4: Performance Based Financing -- Chapter 5: Islamic Finance: Role of Traditional...

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Responsible Management: A Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Green Marketing and Sustainability Management Perspective.-Part One: Corporate Social Responsibility -- Chapter 2: Benefits of Promoting Micro-Level Corporate Social Responsibility for Emerging...

Financial Inclusion in Developing Countries: Applying Financial Technology as a Panacea -- Revisiting the East Asian financial crises: Lessons from ethics and development pathways -- Financial Development and Natural Resources Rents-Human Capital Nexus: A New Approach -- Financial Inclusion...

Part 1. Introduction -- 1. Introduction: Context Matters in Human Resource Management (Toyin Ajibade Adisa, Chima Mordi, and Gbolahan Gbadamosi) -- Part 2. The Africa World -- 2. Human Resource Management in Nigeria: A Review and Conceptual Model (Gbolahan Gbadamosi and Toyin Ajibade Adisa) --...