Economists increasingly agree on the nature of the development and social policies needed to halve poverty over the next ten years. A similar convergence is nowhere in sight in the case of macroeconomic policies. Disagreements in this area remain significant, exacerbated by rising financial...

Industrial policy has long been regarded as a strategy to encourage sector-, industry-, or economy-wide development by the state. It has been central to competitiveness, catching up, and structural change in both advanced and developing countries. It has also been one of the most contested...

Making PRSPs work : can rhetoric and reality coincide? / Alan Whaites -- All for naught? : an analysis of Senegal's PRSP process / Wendy Phillips -- Working towards an Ethiopian PRSP / Joe Muwonge, Beyene Geleta and Simon Heliso -- Process before strategy : planning a less than ideal PRSP for...

"Sustainable Economic and Emerging Markets provides a snapshot of the different dimensions of sustainability and analyses how they interact and configure themselves, case by case, in selected emerging economies. The parameters of economic growth in developing economics are explored in the...