What is linkage? Two propositions -- Three types of linkage, and what linkage proponents must show -- What linkage opponents must show -- Arguments against linkage -- Ruling out linkage proposals -- Identifying linkage proposals that meet the standard objections-a constructive procedure -- A...

We analyze the growth impact of official development assistance to developing countries. Our approach is different from that of previous studies in two major ways. First, we disentangle the effects of two kinds of aid: developmental and non-developmental. Second, our specifications allow for the...

Interest in the emergence of a global middle class has resulted in a number of attempts to identify and enumerate who belongs to it . Current research provides wildly different estimates about the size and evolution of the global middle class because of a lack of consensus on appropriate...

We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The current benchmark version of the dataset...

We introduce the Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP), which is developing two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) containing an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries,...

The authors, specialists in development, argue that what they call dirigismeâan a priori set of requirements for economic developmentâhas led to the preeminence of the strong and the exclusion of the weak. They advocate a learning-centered approach to development, which in turn emphasizes the...

This article argues that, although effective strategic choices for achieving global development goals need to be based on assessments of the costs and benefits of alternative approaches, existing methods of arriving at such assessments are highly unreliable, in particular deriving from...

Franck Amalric opens the journal discussion with a short statement on his views on corporate responsibility followed by comments from members of the corporate world. Development (2004) 47, 3–8. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100073