With a new development framework under way and an increasingly urgent need to address political, socioeconomic and … environmental issues on a global scale, this is a critical moment for the international development agenda. Almost 15 years after … the Millennium Declaration, a new phase for international development is about to begin and, with it, comes the …

and recent adoption by donors and multilateral development banks, there is limited empirical evidence supporting this form …

This paper combines development accounting exercises with economic theory to assess the importance of total factor … successful development benchmarks are explained by subpar productivity gains rather than slower factor accumulation. The … empirical analysis of the interplay between productivity and accumulation in the process of development suggests that one …