Country ownership is the linchpin of the Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF), according to a recent World Bank report on the CDF. This evaluation of the role of ownership and participation in the CDF will examine these issues by addressing five specific questions: (1) has the CDF been...

"Recommends fundamental reorganization of U.S. foreign aid, currently based on outsourcing and management for results, in favor of a more unified approach emphasizing development education, stringent evaluation, and a new approach to contracting"--Provided by publ.

Africa is the world`s most aided major region. Yet economic growth has been disappointingly low there. A number of factors explain the poor outcomes and limited sustainability of and in Africa. But the organisation and management of the aid relationship is a particularly important one, including...

Modernization theory : does economic development cause democratization? / Jose Antonio Cheibub and James Raymond Vreeland -- Dependency theory / James Mahoney and Diana Rodriguez-Franco -- Structuralism / Elliott Green -- Political development / Robert H. Bates -- The Washington Consensus and...

Unlike previous papers, which have focused on the timeliness ranks, we examine Value Line's 3-5 year projections for stock returns, earnings, sales and related measures. We find that Value Line's stock return and earnings forecasts exhibit large positive bias, although their sales predictions do...

This research examines quarterly excess returns for a property-liability (P&L) insurance stock portfolio over the period 1975-90. The excess portfolio returns are not correlated with the general business cycle. This study concludes that excess returns do occur during periods of increased...