type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This paper examines the effect of different categories of foreign aid on poverty reduction. It uses a country case study for Sierra Leone to explore the impact of different aid types on pro-poor growth as a dimension of poverty reduction. Using annual time...</p>

This study argues that in limited dependent variable models, when there is heteroscedasticity, a probit model with a heteroscedastic structure should be estimated. The problem is illustrated using unit record data from the Indian National Sample Survey to analyse the determinants of poverty at...

The purpose of this paper is two-fold; to examine developments in trade and investment policy regimes in Malaysia following the on-set of the financial crisis, using the Trade Policy Review Malaysia 2001 of the WTO as a reference point; and to evaluate the Review in terms of the objectives of the...

When the state and business interact effectively they can promote a more efficient allocation of scarce resources, appropriate industrial policy and a more effective and prioritised removal of key obstacles to growth, than when the two sides fail to co-operate or engage in harmful collusion....