"This book explores the roles of infrastructure developments in World Economic development taking into account of different economic and political shocks and dimensions of governance. It also highlights the infrastructural issues of education, health, women empowerment, forestry, among others,...

"This book explores the roles of infrastructure developments in World Economic development taking into account of different economic and political shocks and dimensions of governance. It also highlights the infrastructural issues of education, health, women empowerment, forestry, among others,...

This volume was prepared by Marc Piopiunik while he has been working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in June 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained empirical studies. All studies aim at...

The first volume of IDS Companions to Development Studies focuses on pivotal writing emerging from the IDS fellowship during the last 50 years. It includes five topics: perspectives and paradigms, debunking myths, development policy, gender and international perspectives, and policy, as well as...

This collection draws together contemporary articles on development economics. Ideal for students with little or no background in economics, it covers a range of themes including poverty, foreign aid, agriculture and human capital

"Many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have achieved considerable economic growth, yet the region still faces many seemingly intractable problems. The conventional wisdom in development agencies - that prioritization is impossible and that everything must be done - is simply not...