Working Paper

The transition from plan to market has fundamentally transformed the social structure in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. The small Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan exemplifies these changes.Using data from nationally...

• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Equality and inequality
• Post-communism

Working Paper

An important feature of aid to developing countries is that it is given to the government. As a result, aid should be expected to affect fiscal behaviour, although theory and existing evidence is ambiguous regarding the nature of these effects. This...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Public expenditures

Working Paper

• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Health
• International agencies

Working Paper

This paper is a contribution to the literature on aid and growth. Despite an extensive empirical literature in this area, existing studies have not addressed directly the mechanisms via which aid should affect growth. We identify investment as the...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Public expenditures

Journal Special Issue

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) give aid to Africa a new emphasis. Yet aid flows to Africa have trended downward over the last decade, and as a consequence more Africans now live in poverty. This is especially true of Sub-Saharan Africa. Any...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Public expenditures

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries

• Agriculture
• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Land tenure

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries

• Climate change
• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Fisheries

Working Paper

Aid is said to be fungible at the aggregate level if it raises government expenditures by less than the total amount. This happens when the recipient government decreases domestic revenue, decreases net borrowing, or when aid bypasses the budget...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Public expenditures

Working Paper

The phased elimination of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement has been one of the most compelling trade policy reforms of the early twenty-first century, and has brought in significant changes in the industrial structures of the countries of the global south...

• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Equality and inequality
• Industrial policy

Working Paper

This paper explores the intergenerational effects of parental health shocks using longitudinal data from the Young Lives project conducted in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is found that health shocks to poorer parents reduce investments in children...

• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Economic development projects
• Health

Working Paper

A recent trend in the study of poverty is to consider a relative poverty line, one that is responsive to the nature of the income distribution. We develop an axiomatic approach to the determination of an amalgam poverty line. Given a reference income...

• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Income distribution
• Poverty measurement

Working Paper

Productivity gains are the prime engine of economic growth. This paper uses a rich amount of firms’ accounting information from the Single Information Collecting Centre in Senegal over the period 1998-2011. To investigate the two main obstacles to...

• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Education
• Environment

Working Paper

Official poverty figures in Uganda are flawed by the fact that the underlying poverty lines are based on a single national food basket that was constructed in the early 1990s. In this paper, we estimate a new set of poverty lines that accounts for...

• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Game theory
• Health

Working Paper

This paper examines the changing nature of occupational labour-market trends in South Africa and the resulting impact on wages. We observe high levels of demand for skilled labour that have intensified a trend already established before 1994. Over...

• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Equality and inequality
• Human capital

Journal Article

Recent evidence from an exhaustive political-economy study of growth of African economies—the Growth Project of the African Economic Research Consortium—suggests that ‘policy syndromes’ have substantially contributed to the generally poor growth in...

• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Macroeconomics
• Social conflict

Working Paper

The rapid economic growth experienced within the past two decades in China highly correlates with childhood overweightness. The epidemic has become an issue of grave concern. A principal factor considered to be responsible for the epidemic in the...

• Children
• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Health