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Global Poverty, Middle-Income Countries and the Future of Development AidThree-quarters of the world’s poor (however defined) live in countries classified as middle-income. Donors need not assume their only option is to abandon countries once they cross the arbitrary threshold in per capita income...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development Finance infrastructureBlog
From the Editor's Desk (June 2013)
29 June 2013 Tony Addison The June-July summer issue of Angle comes to you amid the 19 hours daylight of the Finnish mid-summer...
Econometric models (Economic development) Agriculture ChildrenWorking Paper
Global Poverty, Aid, and Middle-Income Countries: Are the Country Classifications Moribund or is Global Poverty in the Process of ‘Nationalizing’?The majority of the world’s poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development Finance infrastructureWorking Paper
Economic Reforms and Infrastructure Spending: Evidence from China and IndiaThis paper examines the country specific effect of policy reform on infrastructure spending in China and India...
Fiscal policy Government spending policy Finance infrastructureBook
Financial Development, Institutions, Growth and Poverty ReductionThis volume explores the various linkages between financial development, institutions, growth and poverty reduction in low-income and transition countries...
Econometric models (Economic development) Financial institutions Finance infrastructureBook Chapter
Financial Markets and R&D Investments: A Discrete Time Model to Interpret Public PoliciesFrom the book: Financial Development, Institutions, Growth and Poverty Reduction
Public expenditures Finance infrastructure InvestmentsBook Chapter
Financial Sector Development and Total Factor Productivity GrowthFrom the book: Financial Development, Institutions, Growth and Poverty Reduction
Econometric models (Economic development) Financial institutions Finance infrastructureBook Chapter
Does Financial Liberalization Influence Saving, Investment and Growth?: Evidence from 25 Emerging Market Economies, 1973-1996From the book: Financial Development, Institutions, Growth and Poverty Reduction
Econometric models (Economic development) Finance infrastructure InvestmentsBook Chapter
Sources and Effectiveness of Financial Development: What We Know and What We Need to KnowFrom the book: Financial Development, Institutions, Growth and Poverty Reduction
Econometric models (Economic development) Finance infrastructure MacroeconomicsBook Chapter
Financial Sector Development, Savings Mobilization and Poverty Reduction in GhanaFrom the book: Financial Development, Institutions, Growth and Poverty Reduction
Finance infrastructure Poverty Saving and investmentWorking Paper
Sources and Effectiveness of Financial Development: What We Know and What We Need to KnowDrawing on recent literature, the paper argues that institutions and political economy factors hold the key to understanding why some countries have succeeded in developing their financial systems while others have not...
Econometric models (Economic development) Finance infrastructure MacroeconomicsWorking Paper
Financial Sector Development, Savings Mobilization and Poverty Reduction in GhanaThe paper primarily investigates the interrelationship between financial sector development and poverty reduction in Ghana. This is done using time-series data from the World Development Indicators from 1970-2001...
Finance infrastructure Poverty Saving and investmentWorking Paper
Financial Markets and R&D Investments: a Discrete-Time Model to Interpret Public PoliciesThis paper introduces a discrete-time intertemporal investment model in which the flow of profits affects the risk premium on the cost of finance, and, as a consequence, the rate of discount of future profits...
Public expenditures Finance infrastructure InvestmentsWorking Paper
Does Financial Liberalization Influence Saving, Investment and Economic Growth?: Evidence from 25 Emerging Market Economies, 1973-97This paper aims to investigate the relationship between financial liberalization on the one hand and saving, investment and economic growth on the other hand, using a new dataset for measuring financial liberalization for a sample of 25 developing ec...
Econometric models (Economic development) Finance infrastructure InvestmentsWorking Paper
Financial Sector Development and Productivity GrowthRecent years have witnessed important structural changes around the world as a result of the globalization process, the creation of new economic blocks and the liberalization of financial sector in many countries...
Econometric models (Economic development) Financial institutions Finance infrastructureWorking Paper
Examining Private Investment Heterogeneity: Evidence from a Dynamic PanelWe investigate domestic private investment behaviour in a panel of 24 low-income and middle-income countries spanning a period of 1981-2000...
Econometric models (Economic development) Finance infrastructure Investments