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No. 1 | 01 Mar 2004 |
Towards an East Asia Free Trade Area
The inaugural Policy Insight, "Towards an East Asian Free Trade Area", by Shujiro Urata, looks at the progress towards and consequences of an East Asian FTA, not only for the region itself, but also the world economy and for non members of the FTA.... |
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No. 2 | 01 Apr 2004 |
Mobilising Public Opinion against Global Poverty
Citizens in OECD countries quite unambiguously support more solidarity and justice at the international level; however, despite the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by their governments in 2000, they remain insufficiently informed... |
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No. 4 | 01 Jan 2005 |
Policy Coherence of OECD Countries Matters
The East Asian development experience is still not well understood – especially the region’s clustered, sequential development process and neighbourhood effects linking economies at different levels of industrial development. Until now, the... |
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No. 3 | 01 Jan 2005 |
Corporate Governance
The quality of local corporate governance is critically important for the success of long-tem development efforts throughout the developing world today. |
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No. 5 | 31 Jan 2005 |
Decentralisation and Poverty Reduction
Decentralisation has become a key issue in development policy in the past two decades. Whereas the advantages and risks of transferring power and resources to local tiers of government have been debated for quite some time, it is only very recently... |
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No. 8 | 01 May 2005 |
Energy and Poverty in Africa
Access to energy is essential for economic, social and political development. Despite its enormous potential in fossil and renewable energy sources, Africa suffers from major energy deficits. The continent’s resources are underexploited or exported... |
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No. 7 | 01 May 2005 |
Financing SMEs in Africa
Limited access to finance is a major obstacle to development of SMEs in Africa as their inherent higher perceived risk makes financial institutions reluctant to lend to them and adequate financial instruments lack. |
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No. 6 | 01 May 2005 |
African Economic Performance in 2004
Against a backdrop of sustained global growth and high commodity prices, Africa has experienced its best economic performance in many years. While recent economic performance is not merely driven by favourable external factors, African economies... |
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No. 10 | 01 Jun 2005 |
The Human Dynamics of Aid
International development assistance from richer to poorer (“developing”) economies accounts for major flows of capital, human resources and technical assistance. While the net direction of these flows remains a topic of hot debate, there have been... |
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No. 9 | 01 Jun 2005 |
Adaptive Capacity and Inclusive Development
The Centre has highlighted in particular four areas where OECD countries can make a difference: maintaining a stable macroeconomic environment with affordable interest rates; helping to mitigate risks; enhancing trade opportunities through improving... |
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No. 12 | 01 Aug 2005 |
The International Aid System
Donors, aid agencies and recipient governments are having a hard time implementing their promises on aid. Options based on a better understanding of their diverse priorities would help make the aid system more effective. Policy makers pursuing... |
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No. 11 | 01 Aug 2005 |
Private Health Insurance for the Poor in Developing Countries?
The financing of health care is a major challenge for developing countries, especially since deficiencies in national health systems specifically harm the poor. Innovative financing mechanisms, such as private health insurance, offer benefits and... |
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No. 13 | 01 Sept 2005 |
MDGs, Taxpayers and Aid Effectiveness
MDGs and new aid-effectiveness targets are an opprtunity for donors to explain what they do before growing scepticism erodes taxpayer support for aid. |
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No. 15 | 01 Nov 2005 |
Culture, Gender and Growth
While the overall picture for gender equality is still gloomy, recent changes in family institutions in come countries provide an enlightening example. |
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No. 14 | 01 Dec 2005 |
Privatisation
Thirty-eight sub-Saharan African countries have implemented privatisations programmes. The privatisation process is still far from complete and has led to mixed results. The lessons learned from past privatisations allow the identification of... |
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No. 16 | 01 Mar 2006 |
The Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base
This policy insight introduces the Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base: a new tool to determine and analyse obstacles to women's economic development. |
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No. 17 | 01 Apr 2006 |
Do Institutions Block Agricultural Development in Africa?
A coherent institutional framework that supports investment, exchange and representation mechanisms is a key precondition for agricultural development. The importance of customs and traditions for the process of agrarian transformation has been... |
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No. 22 | 01 May 2006 |
African Economic Outlook 2006
Africa’s economic progress now seems on a firm footing after a third straight year of satisfactory performance in 2005, with overall growth of 5 per cent, average per capita income up 3 per cent and inflation steady at under 10 per cent. Two-thirds... |
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No. 21 | 01 May 2006 |
Is More Money Enough to Fix Africa's Transport Infrastructure?
Transport infrastructure has been dangerously neglected in recent times. Lack of transport infrastructure impedes economic integration and poverty reduction. Involving the private sector in financing the transport infrastructure is proving harder... |
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No. 20 | 01 May 2006 |
African Economic Outlook 2006
The focus on war and anecdotal evidence hides real progress towards more stable and open political systems in Africa. This is demonstrated by a new indicator based on a systematic screening of political events and decisions over the last ten years.... |
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Towards an East Asia Free Trade Area
Shujiro Urata
01 Mar 2004
The inaugural Policy Insight, "Towards an East Asian Free Trade Area", by Shujiro Urata, looks at the progress towards and consequences of an East Asian FTA, not only for the region itself, but also the world economy and for non members of the FTA....
Mobilising Public Opinion against Global Poverty
Jude Fransman and Henri-Bernard Solignac Lecomte
01 Apr 2004
Citizens in OECD countries quite unambiguously support more solidarity and justice at the international level; however, despite the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by their governments in 2000, they remain insufficiently informed...
Policy Coherence of OECD Countries Matters
Kiichiro Fukasaku and Alexandra Trzeciak-Duval
01 Jan 2005
The East Asian development experience is still not well understood – especially the region’s clustered, sequential development process and neighbourhood effects linking economies at different levels of industrial development. Until now, the...
Corporate Governance
Charles P. Oman and Daniel Blume
01 Jan 2005
The quality of local corporate governance is critically important for the success of long-tem development efforts throughout the developing world today.
Decentralisation and Poverty Reduction
Johannes Jütting, Elena Corsi and Albrecht Stockmayer
31 Jan 2005
Decentralisation has become a key issue in development policy in the past two decades. Whereas the advantages and risks of transferring power and resources to local tiers of government have been debated for quite some time, it is only very recently...
Energy and Poverty in Africa
Céline Kauffmann
01 May 2005
Access to energy is essential for economic, social and political development. Despite its enormous potential in fossil and renewable energy sources, Africa suffers from major energy deficits. The continent’s resources are underexploited or exported...
Financing SMEs in Africa
Céline Kauffmann
01 May 2005
Limited access to finance is a major obstacle to development of SMEs in Africa as their inherent higher perceived risk makes financial institutions reluctant to lend to them and adequate financial instruments lack.
African Economic Performance in 2004
Nicolas Pinaud and Lucia Wegner
01 May 2005
Against a backdrop of sustained global growth and high commodity prices, Africa has experienced its best economic performance in many years. While recent economic performance is not merely driven by favourable external factors, African economies...
The Human Dynamics of Aid
Malcom MacLachlan and Stuart C. Carr
01 Jun 2005
International development assistance from richer to poorer (“developing”) economies accounts for major flows of capital, human resources and technical assistance. While the net direction of these flows remains a topic of hot debate, there have been...
Adaptive Capacity and Inclusive Development
Ulrich Hiemenz
01 Jun 2005
The Centre has highlighted in particular four areas where OECD countries can make a difference: maintaining a stable macroeconomic environment with affordable interest rates; helping to mitigate risks; enhancing trade opportunities through improving...
The International Aid System
Felix Zimmermann
01 Aug 2005
Donors, aid agencies and recipient governments are having a hard time implementing their promises on aid. Options based on a better understanding of their diverse priorities would help make the aid system more effective. Policy makers pursuing...
Private Health Insurance for the Poor in Developing Countries?
Denis Drechsler and Johannes Jütting
01 Aug 2005
The financing of health care is a major challenge for developing countries, especially since deficiencies in national health systems specifically harm the poor. Innovative financing mechanisms, such as private health insurance, offer benefits and...
MDGs, Taxpayers and Aid Effectiveness
Ida McDonnell and Henri-Bernard Solignac Lecomte
01 Sept 2005
MDGs and new aid-effectiveness targets are an opprtunity for donors to explain what they do before growing scepticism erodes taxpayer support for aid.
Culture, Gender and Growth
Johannes Jütting and Christian Morrisson
01 Nov 2005
While the overall picture for gender equality is still gloomy, recent changes in family institutions in come countries provide an enlightening example.
Privatisation
Lucia Wegner
01 Dec 2005
Thirty-eight sub-Saharan African countries have implemented privatisations programmes. The privatisation process is still far from complete and has led to mixed results. The lessons learned from past privatisations allow the identification of...
The Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base
Johannes Jütting, Christian Morrisson, Jeff Dayton-Johnson and Denis Drechsler
01 Mar 2006
This policy insight introduces the Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base: a new tool to determine and analyse obstacles to women's economic development.
Do Institutions Block Agricultural Development in Africa?
Juan Ramón de Laiglesia
01 Apr 2006
A coherent institutional framework that supports investment, exchange and representation mechanisms is a key precondition for agricultural development. The importance of customs and traditions for the process of agrarian transformation has been...
African Economic Outlook 2006
Céline Kauffmann, Nicolas Pinaud and Lucia Wegner
01 May 2006
Africa’s economic progress now seems on a firm footing after a third straight year of satisfactory performance in 2005, with overall growth of 5 per cent, average per capita income up 3 per cent and inflation steady at under 10 per cent. Two-thirds...
Is More Money Enough to Fix Africa's Transport Infrastructure?
Andrea Goldstein and Céline Kauffmann
01 May 2006
Transport infrastructure has been dangerously neglected in recent times. Lack of transport infrastructure impedes economic integration and poverty reduction. Involving the private sector in financing the transport infrastructure is proving harder...
African Economic Outlook 2006
Lucia Wegner and Henri-Bernard Solignac Lecomte
01 May 2006
The focus on war and anecdotal evidence hides real progress towards more stable and open political systems in Africa. This is demonstrated by a new indicator based on a systematic screening of political events and decisions over the last ten years....