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No. 1 | 01 Jan 1992 |
Adjustment and Equity
• Adjustment does not necessarily increase poverty • Adjusting before a crisis reduces social costs • Refusal to adjust and the suspension of imports leads to self-centred underdevelopment, which is socially much more costly • The choice of... |
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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. 16 | 16 Jan 1999 |
After the Great Asian Slump
• The unprecedented withdrawal of foreign private capital from Asia, more than 10 per cent of GDP in the crisis countries, confronts them with a transfer problem. Creditor governments should induce their home banks into financial rescue operations to... |
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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. 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. 14 | 01 Apr 1997 |
Biotechnology Policy for Developing Country Agriculture
• Biotechnology offers the potential for more environmentally-friendly agriculture but the conditions for developing countries to take advantage of that potential should be created. • Policy intervention is needed to ensure that biotechnology... |
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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. 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. 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. 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. 7 | 01 Jul 1993 |
Employment Creation and Development Strategy
. Developing countries will account for almost all the increase in the world's labour force over the next 25 years; most countries, especially in Africa, will experience very rapid labour force growth. . Labour-intensive development has been... |
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No. 19 | 18 Feb 2002 |
Health, Education and Poverty Reduction
. The poor are the principal beneficiaries of universal access to social services. . Instead of thinking in terms of supply, we need to meet the demand for services from the poor. . Policies should be judged by their outcomes rather than by the... |
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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. 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. 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. 2 | 01 Apr 1992 |
Managing the Environment in Developing Countries
• Environmental policy should be inspired by the recognition that the environment is everyone’s business; all social actors must be involved in environmental management • Policies that implicitly subsidize a wasteful and environmentally destructive... |
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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. 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. 18 | 07 Aug 2001 |
Multilateral Tariff Liberalisation and the Developing Countries
• Tariffs still matter. • Full tariff liberalisation to 2010 would generate dynamic welfare gains of $1 200 billion (at 1995 prices), equivalent to 3 per cent of World GDP in 2010, from greater efficiency and higher productivity. • Developing... |
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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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Adjustment and Equity
Christian Morrisson
01 Jan 1992
• Adjustment does not necessarily increase poverty • Adjusting before a crisis reduces social costs • Refusal to adjust and the suspension of imports leads to self-centred underdevelopment, which is socially much more costly • The choice of...
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...
After the Great Asian Slump
Helmut Reisen
16 Jan 1999
• The unprecedented withdrawal of foreign private capital from Asia, more than 10 per cent of GDP in the crisis countries, confronts them with a transfer problem. Creditor governments should induce their home banks into financial rescue operations to...
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...
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...
Biotechnology Policy for Developing Country Agriculture
Carliene Brenner
01 Apr 1997
• Biotechnology offers the potential for more environmentally-friendly agriculture but the conditions for developing countries to take advantage of that potential should be created. • Policy intervention is needed to ensure that biotechnology...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Employment Creation and Development Strategy
David Turnham
01 Jul 1993
. Developing countries will account for almost all the increase in the world's labour force over the next 25 years; most countries, especially in Africa, will experience very rapid labour force growth. . Labour-intensive development has been...
Health, Education and Poverty Reduction
Christian Morrisson
18 Feb 2002
. The poor are the principal beneficiaries of universal access to social services. . Instead of thinking in terms of supply, we need to meet the demand for services from the poor. . Policies should be judged by their outcomes rather than by the...
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...
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...
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...
Managing the Environment in Developing Countries
David O'Connor and David Turnham
01 Apr 1992
• Environmental policy should be inspired by the recognition that the environment is everyone’s business; all social actors must be involved in environmental management • Policies that implicitly subsidize a wasteful and environmentally destructive...
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...
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...
Multilateral Tariff Liberalisation and the Developing Countries
Sébastien Dessus, Kiichiro Fukasaku and Raed Safadi
07 Aug 2001
• Tariffs still matter. • Full tariff liberalisation to 2010 would generate dynamic welfare gains of $1 200 billion (at 1995 prices), equivalent to 3 per cent of World GDP in 2010, from greater efficiency and higher productivity. • Developing...
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;...