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...