the interplay between extractives and economic development. Just as 'the resource curse' fails as a generic explanation on … to diversify, options for pacing development, and appropriate performance measures. …

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

-added ('value-added ratio') in exports consistent with the objective of achieving economic development through an export …Is the emphasis placed in trade and industry policy-making in developing countries on the share of domestic value …-oriented development strategy? This paper examines the rationale behind this policy emphasis, first by revisiting the conventional case for …

This survey of the 2016 replenishments of three multilateral development bank soft funds and of the Global Fund for … AIDS, TB and Malaria shows that a significant re-set of the multilateral development finance system is taking place, with …, the International Development Association). 'Graduation' of countries away from eligibility for highly concessional …

development literature that collects empirical regularities pointing toward the existence of strategic decision-making among …

Liberalizing trade has proven highly challenging for some low-income countries, as a large share of their tax … extraction derives from trade taxation. After significant drops in tariff levels over the last 30 years, the recovery of lost … low-income countries between 1975 and 2006 is presented. For each dollar lost in trade taxation, democratizing countries …

externality. This paper reviews the recent economic literature on diaspora networks and development from the perspective of the … global South. It is split into two parts: a first section reviews the effect of diaspora networks on trade, foreign …