Trade can and should play an important role in making progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. This includes trade and investment in services, as realizing many of the goals is conditional on improved performance of services sectors in developing countries. The global environment...

The paper emphasizes the increasing need to include all countries within the process of globalization; especially from the developing world. It argues that nation states remain the key to promoting more inclusive development. The paper suggests this goal can be achieved through the institution...

Development aid, one of the most important mechanisms for the redistribution of global wealth, represents financial flows with economic growth and social improvement as their primary objective. Recently, international development cooperation has been in the process of change that requires the...

Author discusses the various problems identified in international development aid and focuses on the distinction between government aid and the role played by the private sector. Gestsson claims, Globalization empowers multilateral organizations and, in turn, forces individual nations to...

The paper examines the role of foreign aid in building capacity to address climate change. While the experience with this topic is relatively recent and not yet extensive, analogous questions have arisen in many other areas of foreign aid. It is likely that climate change aid programmes work...

This paper presents an overview of the economics of international aid, highlighting the historical literature and the contemporary debates. It reviews the “trade-theoretic” and the “contract-theoretic” analytical literature, and the empirical and institutional literature. It demonstrates...

Development is the most important challenge facing the human race but the processes driving economic development are by no means fully understood. However, the core challenge for development is to ensure productive work and a better quality of life for all the people of the World. This challenge...