Der Wirtschaftsaufschwung in zahlreichen Ländern des globalen Südens stellt die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (EZA) vor neue Anpassungserfordernisse. Einst ökonomisch schwach entwickelte "Empfängerländer" haben sich zu dynamischen Wachstumsmärkten und globalen Playern transformiert. Es gibt...

I discuss how aid can support growth in small, isolated economies. Small markets frustrate scale economies and competition. Combined with high transport costs, essential inputs become prohibitively expensive. Breaking the coordination problem requires pioneering investment. Since this generates...

Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the...