Recent advances in the reach and technological sophistication of identification systems have been...

Why is business performance lagging in Africa? To provide answers, this volume focuses on the day...

Making a commitment in advance to buy vaccines if and when they are developed would create incent...

This book tackles the complex issue of how to accelerate economic growth and ensure sustainabilit...

In Let Their People Come, Lant Pritchett discusses five 'irresistible forces' of global labor mig...

Cash on Delivery (COD) Aid proposes a new approach to foreign assistance-one that links aid payme...

Foreign aid has no shortage of critics. Some argue that it undermines development and inherently ...

Argues that the creation of an explicit health benefits plan - a defined list of services that ar...

Results Not Receipts explores how an important and justified focus on corruption is damaging the ...

This book offers a comprehensive set of country-specific studies on the effects of privatization ...

Access to medicines is an issue of life or death for millions of people in poor countries. While ...

Failed states are at greatest risk for collapse and pose an urgent threat to international securi...

This volume demonstrates how incentives can improve the delivery and use of health services in lo...

The last few years have seen a steep decline in the perceived legitimacy of U.S. policies and val...

When he began this book in early 2008, Guillermo Perry argued that developing countries remained ...

Until recently, students of development have put much more energy into understanding the causes a...

The World Bank is assailed by critics on the left, right and center on the grounds it is not effe...

Despite great progress around the world in getting more kids into schools, too many leave without...

Describes the too-often-overlooked positive changes that have taken place in much of Africa since...

Girls have achieved remarkable increases in primary schooling over the past decade, yet millions ...

' Nic van de Walle is the world's leading scholar of the politics of aid and structural adjustmen...

Written entirely in public with input from readers, probes the truth about microfinance to guide ...

Girls' education, indisputably crucial to development, has received a lot of attention--but surpr...

Focuses on three policy areas that are particularly damaging for developing countries: traditiona...

Over the past seven years, the Bush administration has launched a revolution in U.S. foreign aid....

What should a country do if it suddenly discovers oil and gas? How should it spend the subsequent...

The huge costs of armed conflict, the great challenge of state failure, and the slow pace of inte...

Offers the most up-to-date set of facts and figures describing the deep economic integration bind...

Five million people in poor countries are receiving AIDS treatment, but international AIDS policy...

Beleaguered by mutual recrimination between rich and poor countries, squeezed by the zero-sum ari...

Is foreign direct investment good for development? Moving beyond the findings of his previous boo...

Reliance on natural resource revenues, particularly oil, is often associated with bad governance,...

Over the past fifteen years, people in low- and middle-income countries have experienced a health...

** As heard on Radio 4 Rethink** Reviewed in Irish TimesPresents Mark Lowcock's behind-the-scenes...

When Boris Johnson announced the creation of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in ...