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Innovative sources for development finance
Theme: 2002-03
A joint project with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) in response to the UN General Assembly call for a rigorous study on ways to increase external finance for developing countries, particularly to meet the MDGs...
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Conference on aid - principles, policies and performance
Theme: 2006-07
Aid is one of the most challenging development issues facing the international community. There is now a pressing need to evaluate performance to date, and the future for aid in light of recent events such as the post-Monterrey consensus to...
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Globalization and the obstacles to the successful integration of small vulnerable economies
Theme: 2000-01
A key challenge for policy makers is how to bring about the successful integration of the less developed countries into the international system. Many of the obstacles to the meaningful participation of vulnerable developing economies in the...
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Building state capability through Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)
Theme: 2012-13
As a sub-component of the Research and Communication on Foreign Aid (ReCom) programme, the PDIA project feeds into the themes: governance and fragility & social sectors. An integral part of development is the expansion of capability of the state to...
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Experimental and non-experimental methods to study government performance: contributions and limits
Theme: 2012-13
In recent years, field experiments using randomized trials have gained increasing popularity in the field of development economics. In particular, scholars have argued strongly for their use as the best means of identifying ‘what works’ in foreign...
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Natural resources, structural change, and industrial development in Africa
Theme: Transformation
This project focuses on three specific areas that impact the pace of structural transformation and job creation in five emerging African natural resources economies: Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.