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Channing Arndt, Andres Garcia, Finn Tarp, and James Thurlow Economic growth typically reduces poverty, but global averages conceal wide variation at...

• Comparative economics
• Mathematical models
• Poverty

Journal Article

While economic growth generally reduces income poverty, there are pronounced differences in the strength of this relationship across countries. Typical explanations for this variation include measurement errors in growth–poverty accounting and...

• Comparative economics
• Mathematical models
• Poverty

Research Brief

The recent food price crisis and the responses of the policy makers in developing countries provide an unprecedented opportunity to analyse the policy processes in these countries. Policy responses differed depending on the nature and magnitude of...

• Accounting
• Aeronautics
• Agriculture

Journal Article

Africa needs structural change to sustain growth. Industry with and without smoke stacks is key, but Africa has deindustrialised since the 1970s. Can Africa industrialise? Rising costs and domestic demand in Asia offer an opportunity. However, trade...

• Comparative economics
• Industrial policy

Working Paper

• Comparative economics
• Economic development
• Equality and inequality

Working Paper

This paper provides a synthesis of successful strategies and implied lessons for development success, employing at least six themes on in-depth case studies of a large number of developing countries around the world. The coverage includes East Asia...

• Comparative economics
• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development

Working Paper

• Comparative economics
• Government policy (Poor)
• Poverty

Working Paper

This paper reviews the critical theoretical and policy issues relating to growth, economic development and structural transition in small states. The paper discusses alternative perspectives on small size and highlights the salient characteristics...

• Comparative economics
• Economic development
• International trade

Working Paper

While much attention has been focused on the so-called ‘digital divide’ between Africa and the industrialized world, very scant attention has been devoted to the wide variations in the levels of digitalization of African countries. Whereas countries...

• Comparative economics
• Human capital
• Index numbers (Economics)

Working Paper

As elsewhere, the Colombian private sector has been accused of promoting or profiting from violence in the country. However, the private sector’s role in the armed conflict and the impact of conflict on entrepreneurial activity vary, as reflected by...

• Comparative economics
• Entrepreneurship
• Natural resources

Working Paper

The current research on entrepreneurship as an economic phenomenon often assumes its desirability as a driver of economic development and growth. However, entrepreneurial talent can be allocated among productive, unproductive, and destructive...

• Comparative economics
• Economic development
• Entrepreneurship

Working Paper

Literature on post-socialist transformation usually deals with the political, economic and social sides of it, although there have also been important changes in the field of technical advance in the last 20 years. One of capitalism’s main virtues is...

• Capitalism
• Communist
• Comparative economics

Working Paper

What explains the divergent political paths that the post-communist countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have followed since the fall of the Berlin Wall? While some appear today to be consolidated democracies, others have all the...

• Communist
• Comparative economics
• Econometric models

Working Paper

The goal of this study is to reveal the long-term trajectory of Russian economic development and to make predictions for the future. The study starts with a much discussed question: why Russia did worse economically during transition than most other...

• Communist
• Comparative economics
• Econometric models (Economic development)

Working Paper

While economic growth generally reduces income poverty, there are pronounced differences in the strength of this relationship across countries. Typical explanations for this variation include measurement errors in growth-poverty accounting and...

• Comparative economics
• Mathematical models
• Poverty

Working Paper

The paper discusses views on China and India as country role models. In so doing the article recounts the economic and political reforms pursued by the two countries. The paper also outlines the outstanding reforms and the bottlenecks that could...

• Comparative economics
• Economic development
• Economic policy