The ability to pay for a government-led investment strategy to achieve the millennium development goals (MDGs) is determined by the resources available to the government through economic growth, taxation, loans, and grants. Unsustainable public debts increase poverty directly through negative...

CGE modelling has dominated analysis of the impact of external liberalisation on poverty. This article provides a structuralist critique of standard neo-classical CGE models. It highlights five sets of gaps and partial achievements in the modelling of issues affecting the poverty impact of...

Many pledges to increase official development assistance (ODA) remain unfulfilled, and the current economic crisis may constrain such capital flows even further. Can increased debt financing by countries that make progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) be justified? (...)

In Bangladesh, children are accustomed to working in industrial and manufacturing plants, small scale factories, metal works, construction, as well as in many informal sector activities. Based on a survey conducted in Sylhet city, this study found that child workers are suffering from different...

Owing to concerns among low-income countries that the new debt sustainability framework of the Bretton Woods institutions may lock them into a so-called 'low debt-low growth' scenario, the United Nations has called for a more MDG-consistent debt-sustainability concept. This article shows that...