Middle income countries (MICs) are facing rapidly evolving development challenges as their economist mature and integrate into the global economy. As a group, the 86 MICs account for about one -- fifth of world output, and their per capita income has grown by almost 4 percent annually since...

A Development Emergency: the title of this year's Global Monitoring Report, the sixth in an annual series, could not be more apt. The global economic crisis, the most severe since the Great Depression, is rapidly turning into a human and development crisis. No region is immune. The poor...

1 Introduction: The Project Abandonment Problem -- References -- 2 What We Know About the Management of Very Large Projects -- 2.1 Project Success Factors as Lists -- 2.2 The Project Success Frameworks of Miller and Lessard and Morris and Hough -- 2.2.1 Miller and Lessard (2000) -- 2.2.2 Morris...

Against the backdrop of the climate finance gap, this paper investigates factors that motivate migrant participation in diaspora bonds tied to climate projects. The empirical study is based on a survey of 1265 responses from migrants in Europe. We employ change theory to study the shift in...