Articles

• The $138.5 Billion Question : When Does Foreign Aid Work (and When Doesn’t It) ?

  19 novembre 2014, par kristinawilson
  The $138.5 Billion Question: When Does Foreign Aid Work (and When Doesn’t It)?11/19/14 This paper focuses on aid effectiveness. The paper considers peer-reviewed, cross-country, econometric studies, published over the last decade in order to propose areas with policy implications related to the (...)

• Delivering on the Data Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa

  2 juillet 2014
  Delivering on the Data Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa 7/8/14 Despite improvements in censuses and household surveys, the building blocks of national statistical systems in sub-Saharan Africa remain weak. Measurement of fundamental statistics such as births and deaths, growth and poverty, (...)

• Citizen Voice in a Globalized World

  16 juin 2014, par kristinawilson
  Citizen Voice in a Globalized World7/2/14 In today’s world, the global economy is highly interconnected, but the global polity is weak, rudimentary, and fragmented. citizen-voice_globalized-world.pdf

• Money to the People : Estimates of the Potential Scale of Direct Dividend Payments in Africa

  21 mai 2014, par kristinawilson
  Money to the People: Estimates of the Potential Scale of Direct Dividend Payments in Africa 5/21/14 Historical data shows that large natural resource endowments have not translated into better quality of life in Sub-Saharan Africa (“Africa” for short).  (...)

• Migration and Development Research Is Moving Far beyond Remittances - Working Paper 365

  15 mai 2014
  Migration and Development Research Is Moving Far beyond Remittances - Working Paper 3655/15/14 Research on migration and development has recently changed, in two ways. First, it has grown sharply in volume, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural-urban (...)