Policy Brief: Measuring Governance

01-Oct-2010

Charles P. Oman and Christiane Arndt

Quantitative indicators of the quality of governance in developing countries have proliferated since the mid-1990s. The most widely used, and misused, are composite perceptions-based indicators. Greater transparency is required in the production and in the use of governance indicators.

AEO 2010 Multilingual summary English

24-May-2010

AEO 2010 Multilingual summary English

Policy Brief: Latin America in 2010: Migration Policies for Development

30-Nov-2009

The year 2010 will be critical for Latin America. While the region showssigns of recovering from the global economic crisis, many countries stillface important challenges, including scarce investment, ...

Policy Brief: Measuring the Pulse of Africa in Times of Crisis

10-May-2009

Only a year ago Africa’s economic growth prospects seemed historically bright. But what effect has the global crisis had? The international environment facing Africa1 has turned decisively negative. GDP in the OECD countries is expected to contract by 4.3% in 2009 and to be virtually flat in 2010.

Policy Brief: Is Informal Normal? Toward more and better jobs

31-Mar-2009

The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 has far-reaching implications for employment around the world. The slowdown in economic activity can be expected to raise unemployment, reduce international labour mobility and lead to an increase in informal employment.

Policy Brief: Making Fiscal Policy Work for Development in Latin America

28-Oct-2008

Are Latin American governments making the most of fiscal policy to boost economic growth and combat poverty and inequality? Or could governments be making better use of debt management, tax systems and public spending to foster development?

DEV Centre Policy Brief No 38: How to Spend It: Commodity and non-commodity sovereign wealth funds

11-Sep-2008

Helmut Reisen

Sovereign wealth funds have become important players in global financial markets. But their investments have repeatedly raised concerns. This paper argues that the principal motivation for setting up SWFs should put such concerns into the appropriate perspective.

DEV Centre Policy Brief No 37: To Benefit from Plenty: Lessons from Chile and Norway

08-Sep-2008

Gøril Havro and Javier Santiso

It might seem obvious discovering an asset such as oil or copper would be wonderful news for the country making the find. Yet the opposite is often true. The windfall can bring poverty, civil strife, corruption, inequality, slower growth and undemocratic practices.

DEV Centre Policy Brief No 36: Making the Most of Aid: Changes for Africa's agribusiness

01-Aug-2008

Jeff Dayton-Johnson and Kiichiro Fukasaku

Africa’s export performance lags behind East Asia, there are nevertheless a variety of experiences with aid, trade and development  from which policy lessons can be drawn. This Policy Brief highlights lessons from country case studies on Mali, Mozambique, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

DEV Centre Policy Brief No 35: Building Public Awareness of Development. Communicators, Educators and Evaluation

23-Jul-2008

Annette Scheunpflug and Ida McDonnell

This Brief introduces OECD-based policy makers and practitioners — active in the fields of communication, advocacy and education about poverty, inequality and development co-operation — to the need for more evaluation of their work.