DEV Working Paper 282: Are workers' remittances relevant for credit rating agencies?

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09-Oct-2009

This research deals with two key issues for many emerging countries: sovereign

DEV Working Paper 281: Revisiting Political Budget Cycles in Latin America

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14-Aug-2009

Sebastián Nieto Parra and javier Santiso

This analysis highlights, from a governmental and political perspective, the need to avoid fiscal deteriorations around elections in Latin America.

DEV Working Papers 280: Coherence of Development Policies: Ecuador's Economic Ties with Spain and their Development Impact

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30-Jul-2009

Iliana Olivié

This study provides a general analysis of economic relations between Spain, as a donor of official development assistance (ODA), and Ecuador, as a partner and recipient of development aid.

DEV Working Papers 279: Herding in Aid Allocation

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15-Jul-2009

Javier Santiso and Emmanuel Frot

Aid ineffectiveness, fragmentation, and volatility have already been highlighted by scholars and OECD studies. Far fewer studies have been devoted to another problem of capital flows: herding behaviour.

DEV Working Papers 278: Are all Migrants Really Worse off in Urban LabourMarkets? New empirical evidence from China

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30-Jun-2009

Jason Gagnon, Theodora Xenogiani and Chunbing Xing

The rapid and massive increase in rural-to-urban worker flows to the coast of China has drawn recent attention to the welfare of migrants working in urban regions, particularly to their working conditions and pay; serious concern is raised regarding pay discrimination against rural migrants.

DEV Working Papers 277: Taking Stock of the Credit Crunch: Implications for development finance and global governance

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01-Apr-2009

Andrew Mold, Sebastian Paulo and Annalisa Prizzon

This paper examines how the different forms of development finance for low-income countries are likely to be affected by the global financial crisis, principally through reductions in remittances, aid flows and FDI.

DEV Working Papers 276: Extracting the Maximum from the EITI

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12-Mar-2009

Dilan Ölcer

For many countries rich in oil, gas and minerals, development remains an elusive goal. The rich get richer, the poor stay poor, inequality rises, economies stagnate, corruption flourishes and conflict deepens.

DEV Working Papers 275: Development Aid and Portfolio Funds: Trends, volatility and Fragmentation

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17-Dec-2008

Emmanuel Frot et Javier Santiso

This paper presents stylised facts about development aid and capital flows to developing countries, comparing volumes and volatilities and finding that foreign aid is not the major source of finance for these countries any more, though not for all regions.

DEV Working Papers 274: Who Saw Sovereign Debt Crises Coming?

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19-Nov-2008

Sebastián Nieto Parra

This paper studies sovereign debt crises during the period 1993‐2006 through the prism of the primary sovereign bond market.

DEV Working Papers 273: Aid Volatility and Macro Risks in Low-Income Countries

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17-Nov-2008

Eduardo Borensztein, Julia Cagé, Daniel Cohen and Cécile Valadier

The report argues that aid volatility is an important source of volatility for the poorest countries.