I. The Role of the Private Sector: Studies and Evidence -- 1. Reducing Poverty: The Overall Framework -- 2. Escaping from Poverty: Household Income Dynamics in Indonesia, South Africa, Spain, and Venezuela -- 3. Long-term Economic Mobility and the Private Sector in Developing Countries: New...

The opening up of Eastern Europe raises new questions for the design of environmental policies and for international policy coordination. These questions are even more striking when the uncertainty of the political and economic context is taken into account. The essays provide extremely helpful...

1 On the Ecology of Theories -- The Growth of Current Theories -- Toward a Theory of Contextual Analysis -- Summary -- 2 Historical Seedbeds -- The Evolutionary Theater -- Developmental Plays -- Summary -- 3 The “New” Seeds and the Logic of Their Growth (or Jack and the Beanstalk Revisited)...

Biotechnology offers great potential to contribute to sustainable agricultural growth, food security and poverty alleviation in developing countries. Yet there are economic and institutional constraints at national and international levels that inhibit the poor people's access to appropriate...

I Some General Remarks about Less Developed Economies -- I. Developed and Underdeveloped Economies -- II. Sketch of the Social Framework of an Underdeveloped Economy -- III. Economic Development -- II Problems of Public Finance in Less Developed Economies -- IV. Government and Economic Activity...

I Structural Changes in the World Economy and Their Effect on Capital Exports to Less Developed Countries -- II Changes in the Form of Private Capital Exports -- III Influence of Capital Exports on Exports and Employment in Capital Exporting Countries -- IV Capital Export and the Balance of...

An authoritative assessment of the debate over the role of volatile private capital flows and their impact on developing countries. The book outlines the long history of concern about these issues, going back to preparations for the Bretton Woods agreement. It assesses their acceleration with...