This paper is a contribution to our understanding of building local capacity in economics education and research in developing and transition countries. The contributors and discussants in this publication...
The actual distribution of world income across countries is extremely unequal, much higher than the within country inequality faced by most countries. The question studied in this paper is: How do international...
Reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will depend to a large extent on the ability of developing countries to sustain high rates of growth over long periods. But the process of economic growth...
Presenting the proceedings of the May 2003 World Bank Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), the volume imparts new research findings and discussions on key policy issues related to poverty...
Cash transfers targeted to poor people, but conditional on some behavior on their part, such as school attendance or regular visits to health care facilities, are being adopted in a growing number of developing...
These are the proceedings of the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, which gathers the global perspective of scholars, and practitioners of development policy from academic life, government...
Capital account liberalization: what do cross-country studies tell us? by Barry Eichengreen. Where has all the education gone? by Lant Pritchett. Measuring the dynamic gains from trade; by Romain Wacziarg...
Evaluating education reforms : four cases in developing countries; by Elizabeth M. King, and Peter F. Orazem. Do community-managed schools work? An evaluation of El Salvador's EDUCO program; by Emmanuel...
Introduction: poverty and adjustment in the 1980s. Poverty in Eastern Europe in the years of crisis, 1978 to 1987: Poland, Hungary, and Yugoslavia. Macroeconomic adjustment and poverty in selected industrial...
This article analyzes poverty reduction policies in an applied optimal growth framework. Assuming that poverty reduction is effected through redistribution, it focuses on the static and dynamic tradeoffs...
For developing countries the 1980s was a decade of external shocks whose adverse effects were compounded by domestic macroeconomic imbalances and structural inefficiencies. The performance of developing...
This paper summarizes the structure of a a computable general equilibrium model which incorporates short-run disequilibrium mechanisms stemming from natural rigidities of the economic system. Illustrative...