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No. 39 | 27 Oct 2010 |
Measuring Governance
The use of governance indicators, as applied to developing countries, has grown spectacularly in recent years. Following the maxim that you cannot manage what you cannot measure, international investors and official development aid agencies, together... |
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No. 38 | 11 Sept 2008 |
How to Spend It: Commodity and Non-Commodity Sovereign Wealth Funds
Sovereign wealth funds have become important players in global financial markets. But their investments have repeatedly raised concerns, such as fear of industrial espionage or geopolitical threats. This paper argues that the principal motivation for... |
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No. 37 | 08 Sept 2008 |
To Benefit from Plenty: Lessons from Chile and Norway
It might seem obvious discovering an asset such as oil or copper would be wonderful news for the country making the find. Yet the opposite is often true. The windfall can bring poverty, civil strife, corruption, inequality, slower growth and... |
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No. 36 | 01 Aug 2008 |
Making the Most of Aid: Challenges for Africa's Agribusiness
Aid and trade policies – in OECD countries and in developing countries – might reinforce each other to promote development, or they might be substitutes: the sign of the correlation between trade and aid flows depends on the context. East Asia’s... |
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No. 35 | 23 Jul 2008 |
Building Public Awareness of Development
The Millennium Development Goals, the aid effectiveness agenda, and global interdependence have contributed to more demand and a sense of urgency for greater public awareness and learning about these promises, and challenges, in OECD countries.... |
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No. 34 | 11 Mar 2008 |
Banking on Development. Private Financial Actors and Donors in Developing Countries
A large, untapped reservoir of potential partnerships between private financial institutions (banks, asset managers, private equity firms, etc.) and aid donors remains to be fully exploited. Banks, private equity and asset management firms are... |
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No. 33 | 01 Dec 2007 |
New Actors in Health Financing
With concern about how to finance the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) widespread, recent donor pledges to raise aid volumes are welcome. However, aid alone will not suffice – bringing in new actors and sources of development finance will be... |
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No. 32 | 01 Feb 2007 |
Commodity Funds
Poor countries are and will remain for some time vulnerable to external shocks, whether to export prices or from natural disasters. The lowest-income countries have a higher incidence of shocks than other developing countries and tend to suffer... |
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No. 31 | 01 Dec 2006 |
After Gleneagles
Suppose a DAC donor earmarks $1 billion of taxpayers’ money for official development assistance (ODA). The donor may use two instruments as an outright grant or in combination with a market loan to produce a concessional loan of $2 billion with a... |
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No. 30 | 01 Oct 2006 |
Policies for Migration and Development
Managing migration has become a priority for policy makers both in developed and developing countries; it is a difficult challenge indeed. Large immigration or emigration flows relative to domestic population’s impact on almost all aspects of an... |
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No. 29 | 01 Sept 2006 |
Natural Disaster and Vulnerability
The tsunami disaster in the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004, to which more than 225 000 deaths had been attributed by the United Nations’ six-month review in June 2005, elicited a worldwide humanitarian relief effort unprecedented in its scale;... |
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No. 28 | 01 Sept 2006 |
Migration, Aid and Trade
In November 2005, Glenys Kinnock, Co-President of the ACP EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, reported that “there are more nurses from Malawi in Manchester than in Malawi and more doctors from Ethiopia in Chicago than Ethiopia.”1 These Africans had... |
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No. 27 | 22 Jul 2005 |
Changing Social Institutions to Improve the Status of Women in Developing Countries
Deeply rooted social institutions – societal norms, codes of conduct, laws and tradition – cause gender discrimination.Religion per se does not systematically define such discrimination. All dominant religions show flexibility in interpreting the... |
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No. 26 | 16 May 2005 |
Policy Coherence Towards East Asia
OECD countries face at least five major challenges for promoting policies that are consistent with their development goals: . ensuring security and political stability; . anticipating the impacts of their macroeconomic policies on developing-country... |
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No. 25 | 15 Sept 2004 |
Which Policies Can Reduce the Cost of Capital in Southern Africa ?
. Lowering interest rates and, thus, the cost of borrowing in the rand zone (Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland and South Africa) is a priority to promote investment and economic growth. . Local-currency interest rates in these countries are driven by those... |
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No. 24 | 06 Apr 2004 |
Innovative Approaches to Funding the Millennium Development Goals
• Despite post-Monterrey donor initiatives, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are underfinanced. • The revenue potential, the additionality and the speed of availability of new finance sources, and their political feasibility, are of particular... |
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No. 23 | 24 Feb 2004 |
Corporate Governance in Developing, Transition and Emerging-Market Economies
• Sound national systems of corporate governance are essential for all countries, including the poorest, to reap the benefits of globalisation. • “Corporate governance” comprises the institutions that govern the relationship between people who manage... |
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No. 22 | 18 Dec 2002 |
Strengthening Participation in Public Expenditure Management
• Participation by civil society in public expenditure management promises to improve social and economic outcomes while increasing confidence in public institutions. • Participatory budgeting (PB) programmes depend on the effective engagement of... |
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No. 21 | 01 Aug 2002 |
Beyond Johannesburg
• Early climate-related actions should be those with a high local economic and/or environmental payoff per unit of impact on greenhouse gases. • Energy, transport and natural resource management policies can often be better designed to realise... |
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No. 20 | 06 May 2002 |
The New Regionalism in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Regional integration in sub-Saharan Africa is becoming a vehicle for enhancing private investment through confidence building. Setting clear and easy-to-track priorities is key to achieving these policy goals. • Regional policy harmonisation or... |
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Measuring Governance
Charles P. Oman and Christiane Arndt
27 Oct 2010
The use of governance indicators, as applied to developing countries, has grown spectacularly in recent years. Following the maxim that you cannot manage what you cannot measure, international investors and official development aid agencies, together...
How to Spend It: Commodity and Non-Commodity Sovereign Wealth Funds
Helmut Reisen
11 Sept 2008
Sovereign wealth funds have become important players in global financial markets. But their investments have repeatedly raised concerns, such as fear of industrial espionage or geopolitical threats. This paper argues that the principal motivation for...
To Benefit from Plenty: Lessons from Chile and Norway
Gøril Bjerkhol Havro and Javier Santiso
08 Sept 2008
It might seem obvious discovering an asset such as oil or copper would be wonderful news for the country making the find. Yet the opposite is often true. The windfall can bring poverty, civil strife, corruption, inequality, slower growth and...
Making the Most of Aid: Challenges for Africa's Agribusiness
Jeff Dayton-Johnson and Kiichiro Fukasaku
01 Aug 2008
Aid and trade policies – in OECD countries and in developing countries – might reinforce each other to promote development, or they might be substitutes: the sign of the correlation between trade and aid flows depends on the context. East Asia’s...
Building Public Awareness of Development
Annette Scheunpflug and Ida McDonnell
23 Jul 2008
The Millennium Development Goals, the aid effectiveness agenda, and global interdependence have contributed to more demand and a sense of urgency for greater public awareness and learning about these promises, and challenges, in OECD countries....
Banking on Development. Private Financial Actors and Donors in Developing Countries
Javier Santiso
11 Mar 2008
A large, untapped reservoir of potential partnerships between private financial institutions (banks, asset managers, private equity firms, etc.) and aid donors remains to be fully exploited. Banks, private equity and asset management firms are...
New Actors in Health Financing
Denis Drechsler and Felix Zimmermann
01 Dec 2007
With concern about how to finance the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) widespread, recent donor pledges to raise aid volumes are welcome. However, aid alone will not suffice – bringing in new actors and sources of development finance will be...
Commodity Funds
Daniel Cohen, Thibault Fally and Sébastien Villemot
01 Feb 2007
Poor countries are and will remain for some time vulnerable to external shocks, whether to export prices or from natural disasters. The lowest-income countries have a higher incidence of shocks than other developing countries and tend to suffer...
After Gleneagles
Daniel Cohen, Pierre Jacquet and Helmut Reisen
01 Dec 2006
Suppose a DAC donor earmarks $1 billion of taxpayers’ money for official development assistance (ODA). The donor may use two instruments as an outright grant or in combination with a market loan to produce a concessional loan of $2 billion with a...
Policies for Migration and Development
Louka T. Katseli, Robert E.B. Lucas and Theodora Xenogiani
01 Oct 2006
Managing migration has become a priority for policy makers both in developed and developing countries; it is a difficult challenge indeed. Large immigration or emigration flows relative to domestic population’s impact on almost all aspects of an...
Natural Disaster and Vulnerability
Jeff Dayton-Johnson
01 Sept 2006
The tsunami disaster in the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004, to which more than 225 000 deaths had been attributed by the United Nations’ six-month review in June 2005, elicited a worldwide humanitarian relief effort unprecedented in its scale;...
Migration, Aid and Trade
Jeff Dayton-Johnson and Louka T. Katseli
01 Sept 2006
In November 2005, Glenys Kinnock, Co-President of the ACP EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, reported that “there are more nurses from Malawi in Manchester than in Malawi and more doctors from Ethiopia in Chicago than Ethiopia.”1 These Africans had...
Changing Social Institutions to Improve the Status of Women in Developing Countries
Johannes Jütting and Christian Morrisson
22 Jul 2005
Deeply rooted social institutions – societal norms, codes of conduct, laws and tradition – cause gender discrimination.Religion per se does not systematically define such discrimination. All dominant religions show flexibility in interpreting the...
Policy Coherence Towards East Asia
Kiichiro Fukasaku, Masahiro Kawai, Michael G. Plummer and Alexandra Trzeciak-Duval
16 May 2005
OECD countries face at least five major challenges for promoting policies that are consistent with their development goals: . ensuring security and political stability; . anticipating the impacts of their macroeconomic policies on developing-country...
Which Policies Can Reduce the Cost of Capital in Southern Africa ?
Martin Grandes and Nicolas Pinaud
15 Sept 2004
. Lowering interest rates and, thus, the cost of borrowing in the rand zone (Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland and South Africa) is a priority to promote investment and economic growth. . Local-currency interest rates in these countries are driven by those...
Innovative Approaches to Funding the Millennium Development Goals
Helmut Reisen
06 Apr 2004
• Despite post-Monterrey donor initiatives, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are underfinanced. • The revenue potential, the additionality and the speed of availability of new finance sources, and their political feasibility, are of particular...
Corporate Governance in Developing, Transition and Emerging-Market Economies
Charles P. Oman, Steven Fries and Willem Buiter
24 Feb 2004
• Sound national systems of corporate governance are essential for all countries, including the poorest, to reap the benefits of globalisation. • “Corporate governance” comprises the institutions that govern the relationship between people who manage...
Strengthening Participation in Public Expenditure Management
Jeremy Heimans
18 Dec 2002
• Participation by civil society in public expenditure management promises to improve social and economic outcomes while increasing confidence in public institutions. • Participatory budgeting (PB) programmes depend on the effective engagement of...
Beyond Johannesburg
Georg Caspary and David O'Connor
01 Aug 2002
• Early climate-related actions should be those with a high local economic and/or environmental payoff per unit of impact on greenhouse gases. • Energy, transport and natural resource management policies can often be better designed to realise...
The New Regionalism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Andrea Goldstein
06 May 2002
• Regional integration in sub-Saharan Africa is becoming a vehicle for enhancing private investment through confidence building. Setting clear and easy-to-track priorities is key to achieving these policy goals. • Regional policy harmonisation or...