Foreign aid has been distributing for many decades with the ‘theoretical' expectation that it will work as a catalyst for development by boosting domestic savings, investment and economic activities. But in ‘practice,' foreign aid has been debated for its performance. Particularly in the...

In this study, we investigate the role of development assistance in reducing a hypothetically negative impact of terrorism on economic growth, using a panel of 78 developing nations with data for the period 1984-2008. The empirical evidence is based on interactive Quantile regressions. Domestic,...

The study investigates the financing development expenditures through development aid and its impact on economic growth in Pakistan using time series data for the time period 1980-2012. Ordinary least square (OLS) has been applied for the estimation of model and instrumental variables are...

Over the past decade, development actors have directed their attention to the lives of people who are marginalized based on their sexual orientations, gender identities/expressions and/or sex characteristics, often under the rubric of “LGBTI” (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex)...

This paper outlines areas of human rights law relevant to development and introduces perspectives on the nature of the relationship between the two fields. While it is clear that some progress has been made towards integrating human rights and development, it is clear that the two discourses...

Hopes for development aid remain high among Western politicians and pundits, but the evidence is depressing. Foreign aid has on average probably no effect on long-run growth. To understand the failure of many development projects, we need a deeper consideration of the failure of top-down...