The classic narrative of economic development - poor countries are caught in poverty traps, out of which they need a Big Push involving increased aid and investment, leading to a takeoff in per capita income - has been very influential in development economics since the 1950s. This was the...

Most actors in the field of foreign aid agree with the call for coordinated engagement in fragile states in order to more effectively counter the consequences and origins of state failure. However, despite such demands, governments from OECD countries as well as multilateral agencies that are...

In this paper I describe certain results that were obtained in the UNITAR project based on a model I have specified for studying the relationship between international terms of trade and domestic income distributions of the exporting countries within the South. In particular, I shall concentrate...

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Allocation of International Aid -- 1 Modeling Intertemporal Aid Allocation to Papua New Guinea -- 2 Multilateral Aid Coordination by the International Financial Institutions -- 3 Aid Principles and Policy -- 4 Interventions,...