consider how both anti-poverty instruments - financial assistance and decentralization - work together …

entrepreneurship in fragile state. -- entrepreneurship ; development ; fragile states ; institutions ; business ; environment …

for political power and private rents. We find that economic development has different impacts on policy choices …, depending on whether it appears in the form of rises in income or in education: A higher income level reduces democracy, whereas … more education leads to both more democracy and more repression. These theoretical findings are corroborated by panel data …

FDI contributes to economic growth and whether the effect varies with the human capital development level in a panel data … considering domestic human capital development level …

Energy-based economic development (EBED) can provide economic, social and environmental benefits related to national … economic development and sustainable growth activities. As both policy and research interests in responsible mechanisms for … economic development grow, EBED benefits are becoming increasingly attractive to planners in both developed and developing …

considered to be beneficial for the economic development of developing countries. Current WTO rules support regional trade … tools for economic development. This paper critiques this conventional support of FDI and regional trade liberalization … development interests and the call for FDI and trade liberalization. The paper also discusses the impact of the recent …

While the objectives of the World Trade Organization include promotion of economic development for developing countries …, Current trade rules impede development interests significantly by depriving developing countries of the ability to adopt … effective development policies. This problem is particularly severe in the areas of tariff binding and state subsidies. While …

This paper examines the role of private actors in international development aid, focusing on four new actors or actors …) development aid; (2) transnational aid NGOs as development agenda-setters; (3) foundations and corporations as sources of … development aid; (4) transnational aid NGOs as private providers of privately funded aid. For each of them, we discuss the sources …

Globalization is the process of increased interconnectedness among countries. The prosperous economic development that … living, and an overall improved quality of life. The successful economic development of a nation hinges on its ability to … overall impact on economic development …

address the infrastructure poverty comprehensively in post-2015 new-development strategies … on human development. Furthermore, major infrastructure services, such as transport and energy, are missing in the … current Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) framework; although there is a firm consensus that infrastructure is the main …