The paper discusses the costs and benefits to be expected by least-developed and low-income ("vulnerable") economies if they accede to the WTO, the impact of current debates about WTO reform on vulnerable economies, and measures to make it easier for vulnerable economies to accede to and...

Results-based approaches play an important role in the current development-policy debate. There are two aspects to this debate: on the one hand, further improving the effectiveness of development cooperation (aid) is important to the specialists; whereas on the other hand, many donors...

While there is little doubt about the importance of evaluation in development cooperation, the proliferation of systematic evaluation has raised concerns over the so-called “evaluation deadweight” which may exist where costs of evaluation exceed the benefits. We need to understand what...