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A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President
The White House and the World shows how modest changes in U.S. policies could greatly improve the lives of poor people in developing countries, thus f...
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An Agenda for Reform
This report discusses several different approaches that support reforming health care services in developing countries. For some time now, health care...
Inequality and Injustice in Our Global Economy
References p. 37-46....
Market Reform and Equitable Growth in Latin America
Latin American income distribution is among the most unequal in the world. Both the poor and the wealthy have paid a price for this inequality, which ...
Policy Implications for Citizens Worldwide in the 21st Century
Substantial progress in the fight against extreme poverty was made in the last two decades. But the slowdown in global economic growth and significant...
Investments, Incentives, and Institutions
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
Building a Grand Strategy in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India
Aspen Policy Books is a series devoted to identifying and circulating critical new thinking on national security challenges. This book is a collection...
What Can Research Contribute?
The conclusions of past research and priorities for future research on the relationship between health and economic development: the effects of develo...
A CGD Working Group Report and Selected Essays
The World Bank is assailed by critics on the left, right and center on the grounds it is not effective, not accountable, not democratic or legitimate,...
Education in Brazil
Fundamental changes in Brazilian economic policy in the mid-1990s have dramatically slowed inflation and set the stage for sustained growth. These gai...
The Case of Chile and Developing Countries
Examines the growth-equity relationship in developing countries...
From IMF Gold to a New Aid Architecture
This study brings readers up to date on the complicated subject of debt relief for poor countries. It also addresses the questions of more efficient a...
How and why Governments Misbehave
In most countries it is easy to identify reallocations of public spending for social programs that would improve efficiency and simultaneously improve...
U.S. Policy and Poorly Performing States
'Short of the Goal' analyses US policy toward poorly performing states that are ineligible for new U.S. foreign assistance programs and examines the r...
Comparing East Asia and Latin America
Covers the period from 1970 to 1994....
A New Approach to Foreign Aid
Foreign aid has no shortage of critics. Some argue that it undermines development and inherently does more harm than good; others insist that aid must...
Economic Policies for Latin America's Poor and Middle-income Majority
"Presents 'tools' to make life in Latin America more equitable and fair for the majority. Suggests policies and programs for making tax structures mor...
Economic and Social Mobility in a Changing World
This text asks to what extent the increasing inequality seemingly inherent in a market-based economy also increases the the opportunities for economic...
Policy Implications for Citizens Worldwide in the Twenty-first Century
Fluctuations in international trade, financial markets, and commodity prices, as well as the tendency of institutions to favour the interests of the b...
This paper addresses the key elements and changes in population policies and programs, including the strength of program effort, from 1972 to 1982. Us...
The Power of Regionalism
The historic 2002 United Nations Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico, overlooked a crucial question: regionalism. Financing D...
The Debt Game and Donor Behaviour in Africa
Essays in Honor of Enrique V. Iglesias
Latin America in a New Era of Globalization: Essays in Honor of Enrique V. Iglesias is the tribute a group of friends pays to Enrique Iglesias. By vir...
An Empirical Exploration for South-Central India
Results of the Community and Service Provider Survey
A New Approach to Foreign Aid : with an Application to Primary Schooling
Cash on Delivery (COD) Aid proposes a new approach to foreign assistance--one that links aid payments more directly to desired outcomes to promote acc...