Working Paper

• Comparative economics
• Economic development
• Economic policy

Working Paper

• Comparative economics
• Economic development
• Economic policy

Working Paper

• Comparative economics
• Government policy (Poor)
• 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

Blog

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

Working Paper

• Comparative economics
• Economic development
• Equality and inequality

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

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

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

In the last twenty years, Brazil has undergone several attempts of improving sustainable growth through stabilization programmes, and more recently, structural reforms in line with the Washington Consensus Agenda. The results, however, have been...

• Comparative economics
• Economic integration
• Fiscal policy

Working Paper

This paper investigates the impacts and responses of macroeconomic shocks in some domestic economies in Sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1961-99; more specifically, it seeks to answer the question of whether there are any systematic differences in...

• Comparative economics
• Economic development
• Economic integration

Working Paper

The need for monitoring countries’ overall performance in sustainable development (SD) is widely recognized, but the methods for aggregating vast amounts of empirical data remain rather crude. This paper examines the so-called ‘benefit of doubt’...

• Comparative economics
• Index numbers (Economics)
• Mathematical optimization

Working Paper

International comparisons of average national incomes omit important information about leisure, home production, health, etc. They are also bedevilled by index number problems. This paper suggests ways of combining working hours and life-expectancy...

• Comparative economics
• Income
• Index numbers (Economics)

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)

Book Chapter

Part of Book The Poor under Globalization in Asia, Latin America, and Africa

• Comparative economics
• Economic development
• Equality and inequality

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Entrepreneurship and Conflict

• Comparative economics
• Economic development
• Entrepreneurship