Despite the democracy-enhancing intentions of most donors, foreign aid can often offer opportunities for governments to politically repress their populations. This chapter argues and presents evidence that aid from the world's largest bilateral donor - the United States - harms political rights...

Forward-looking monetary policy communication has become a key element of flexible inflation-targeting regimes across advanced and emerging market economies. The Reserve Bank of India’s implementation of a flexible inflation targeting framework since 2016 has been supported by a broad set of...

1. India's Economic Engagement with the Maghreb / Faisal Ahmed and M. Absar Alam 1-25. - 2. India-Morocco Trade and Investment Opportunities / Suresh Kumar, Paramjit, Rashmi Kapoor and Prahlad Bairwa 26-53. - 3. Arab Spring: Arms Movement and Terrorism in Sub-Saharan Africa / Halilu Babaji,...

Tragically, dictatorship and civil strife have led to less developed, less democratic, and more conflict-prone contemporary Muslim-majority societies. Ahmed argues, however, neither Islam nor aspects of Muslim culture are the cause. Grounded in a positive political economy approach, Conquests...

Unlike in most other emerging markets, capital flows to South Africa since the mid 1990s have been heavily biased toward portfolio flows. In this context, the objective of the paper is twofold: to identify the determinants of the level and composition of capital flows to emerging markets and to...