Market-oriented economic policies have been strongly linked to faster rates of economic growth. Foreign aid is often provided in part to encourage market-oriented reforms. We analyse the impact of aid on market-liberalizing policy reform, correcting for its potential endogeneity. Results...

According to World Bank policy, countries remain eligible to borrow from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development until they are able to sustain long-term development without further recourse to Bank financing. Graduation from the Bank is not an automatic consequence of reaching...

This Handbook provides an overview of interdisciplinary research related to social choice and voting for a non-specialist audience. Expert contributors from various fields present critical interpretations of the existing literature and descriptions of famous theorems and other important results,...