Growth, poverty reduction, and social peace are all undermined when public expenditure management and taxation are weak … without a good fiscal system. The macroeconomic frameworks of many poor countries are improving, but fiscal policy's full … potential will not be realized until good and accountable expenditure and taxation systems are built. Good fiscal policy can …

be associated with acute social inequality and deep poverty. Many countries struggle to diversify their economies, and …

been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack … change, often of the worst kind. Today, structural transformation remains on the policy table, but many of the constraints … commodity price shocks. Today's policy agenda is subtle, and one in which the challenges have no easy answers. …

The COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented global crisis. The task for economic policy is to help keep people … alive, enterprises afloat, and households out of poverty. The pandemic has macroeconomic dimensions. First, it affects … macroeconomic stability and growth. Second, the tools of macroeconomic policy-fiscal and monetary policy together with debt …

should be the priorities for 'post-conflict' policy? Should it give, for example, higher priority to health or to livelihoods …

should be the priorities for 'post-conflict' policy? Should it give, for example, higher priority to health or to livelihoods …

been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack … change, often of the worst kind. Today, structural transformation remains on the policy table, but many of the constraints … commodity price shocks. Today's policy agenda is subtle, and one in which the challenges have no easy answers. …

difficulties that arise. It concludes that getting development policy right has the potential to lift millions out of poverty. …This paper discusses development policy objectives, noting how these have changed over the years, with a more explicit … focus on poverty reduction coming recently to the fore. It also examines the relationship between economic growth and …