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Shadow prices for a small open economy under uncertainty: Which expected values are validThis paper re-examines the validity of using expected values to evaluate the social profitability of public investments under uncertainty...
Uncertainty Shadow prices Public investmentsWorking Paper
Natural resource revenues and public investment in resource-rich economies in sub-Saharan AfricaThe general policy prescription for resource-rich countries is that, for sustainable consumption, a greater percentage of the windfall from resource rents should be channelled into accumulating foreign assets such as a sovereign public fund as done i...
Public investmentsJournal Article
The Efficiency of India's Cities: Is There a Case to Finance Them?One reason for unsatisfactory public service delivery in Indian cities is that city finances are in poor condition...
Land tenure Public investments Public utilitiesBlog
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
Prioritizing Rural Investments in Africa: a Hybrid Evaluation Approach Applied to UgandaPrioritizing public investments requires information on relative returns that are difficult to derive from disparate evaluation studies...
Agriculture Poverty Public investmentsWorking Paper
Impact of Climate Change on Crops, Irrigation and Hydropower in the Zambezi River BasinThe past reliance on historical observed weather patterns for future investment in basic infrastructure planning (e.g., irrigation schemes, hydropower plants, roads, etc.) has been questioned considerably in recent years...
Agriculture Climate change Public investmentsResearch Brief
Aid, Debt, and Public Expenditure AllocationIt is predicted that the global financial crisis will negatively affect developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa both through a reduction in Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) caused by the shrinking (or stagnating) of the economies of many majo...
Public debt Economic assistance and foreign aid Fiscal policyWorking Paper
On the Impact of External Debt and Aid on Public Expenditure Allocation in Sub-Saharan Africa after the Launch of the HIPC InitiativeIn the wake of the current financial and economic crises, the economies of sub-Saharan Africa find themselves squeezed between likely reductions in official development assistance and the pressing challenge to eradicate poverty...
Public debt Economic assistance and foreign aid Fiscal policyWorking Paper
The Efficiency of States and Cities: Is There a Case for Public Land Leasing and Sales to Finance India’s Cities?In this study an attempt has been made to assess the potential of land as a municipal financing tool in four Indian cities, to enable better public service delivery and attainment of the MDGs...
Land tenure Public investments Public utilitiesJournal Article
Poverty and Governance: The Contest for AidPart of Journal Special Issue Development Aid
Competition Economic assistance and foreign aid Political scienceWorking Paper
Poverty and Governance: The Contest for AidCountries compete with one another for funds distributed by nongovernment organizations (NGOs). We examine the competition over poverty and governance conducted by a NGO in the allocation of its funds among potential recipient countries...
Competition Economic assistance and foreign aid Political scienceBook 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
The Burden of Debt and the Millennium Development Goal for Poverty in IndiaFrom the book: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Public debt Poverty Public investmentsWorking Paper
The External Debt-Servicing Constraint and Public Expenditure Composition: Evidence from African EconomiesThe paper explores the impact of a binding external debt-servicing constraint on the sectoral composition of government expenditures in the economies of Africa, where this constraint has traditionally been most prevalent...
Public debt Economic assistance and foreign aid Public expendituresWorking Paper
The Burden of Government Debt in the Indian States: Implications for the MDG Poverty TargetIn this paper we explore what impact, if any, government debts have on achieving the Millennium Development Goals for the Indian states...
Public debt Poverty Public investmentsWorking 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 Investments