Institutional Efficiency and its Determinants: The Role of Political Factors in Economic Growth

17-Feb-2004

New Institutional Economics (NIE) takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding economic phenomena like growth, efficiency and income distribution. The authors of this book attempt to provide an integrated methodology, hitherto lacking in NIE, that analyses both the impact of institutions on economic development and the determinants that shape institutional quality.

Do Community-based Health Insurance Schemes Improve Poor People’s Access to Health Care? Evidence From Rural Senegal

19-Jan-2004

Article by Senior Economist Johannes Jütting in World Development, Vol. 32, No. 2.

The Currency Premium and Local-Currency Denominated Debt Costs in South Africa

06-Jan-2004

This paper aims at identifying the determinants of South African currency premia in order to assess the scope of South African economic policies for narrowing the spread on local-currency denominated debt.

Land, Conflict and Development: What Role for Donors?

02-Jul-2003

Participants formulated preliminary guidance on how donors can best incorporate land issues in their policy frameworks for the management and mitigation of conflict. In the summary you will find preliminary policy conclusions, and proposals from the participating experts on how to further advance this agenda.

WTO and OECD Launched Requests for Information to Support Doha Development Agenda

01-Apr-2003

OECD Ministers issued an urgent call at their 2002 ministerial meeting in Paris for action to address the trade concerns of developing countries, including market access, welcoming the OECD work with the World Trade Organisation to create a database in support of the Doha Development Agenda.

OECD Development Centre to Get New Director in July 2003

01-Apr-2003

Dr Louka Katseli, Professor of Economics at the University of Athens, has been appointed Director of the Development Centre.

Technical Papers No.201: Prospects for Emerging-Market Flows Amid Investor Concerns About Corporate Governance

03-Dec-2002

This paper assesses the impact of higher risk on developed-country corporate assets on the prospects for private capital flows and their composition to emerging-market economies.

Technical Papers No. 199: Will Basel II Affect International Capital Flows to Emerging Markets?

25-Nov-2002

This paper investigates the consequences of Basel II for international capital flows to emerging markets.

Technical Papers No. 200: Convergence and Divergence of Sovereign Bond Spreads - Lessons from Latin America

25-Nov-2002

To what extent do permanent or transitory changes in fundamentals affect sovereign risk perception once contagion is controlled for? How can a relatively high and volatile spread be the cause of unsustainable public debt accumulation?

The Reference on Africa

Special focus on technical and vocational skills development in Africa.


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