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

, aid strategy and policy shifted to put a stronger emphasis on human development. This accelerated with the Millennium … Development Goals and will continue under the Sustainable Development Goals, which have even more ambitious targets. The paper … future global development agenda. …

Developing countries need to raise sufficient tax revenue to finance development. Revenue mobilization is often …

Rapid urbanization, and particularly the associated problems of urban poverty, unsustainable development and … diverted to urbanization and green city development. This paper studies aid's implementation strategies and effectiveness by … aid to succeed in supporting developing countries' urbanization and green city development. …

. I begin by describing how gender norms influence the relationship between economic development and female employment, as … well as how gender norms differ substantially across societies at the same level of economic development. I then discuss in …

Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) between the European Union (EU) and trade partners go far beyond mere elimination of …

of shocks. Based on data from the International Centre for Taxation and Development Government Revenue Dataset for 1980 …-2010, we measure the elasticity of tax revenue with respect to terms-of-trade shocks. We find that revenue in resource …

conclusion relates to the contribution of aid to capacity development in education - on the one hand an issue of central … reproducing yet more successful, but individual projects. Perversely, development agencies which focus only on demonstrable short … deepening development, to whose progress they are trying to contribute. …