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Development Economics

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: What Can It Learn From, and Perhaps Teach To, the Multilateral Development Banks?

Policy Brief #14 About the Authors Stephany Griffith-Jones Financial Markets Program Director Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) Stephany Griffith-Jones is an economist specialising in international finance and development, with emphasis on reform of the international and national financial system, especially in relation to financial regulation and global governance. She is Read more…

By Wanja Wambu, 2 yearsAugust 13, 2024 ago

Development Economics

Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability: New Policy Options

This important collection of essays from the leading writers in the field, focuses on the importance of taking environmental issues into account in the process of development and poverty reduction. This book deepens our understanding of environmental sustainability in a context of economic growth, putting sustainable development firmly back on Read more…

By Aleksey (Adminstrator), 2 yearsAugust 13, 2024 ago

Development Economics

Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of the New York Times bestselling book Globalization and Its Discontents , Joseph E. Stiglitz here joins with fellow economist Andrew Charlton to offer a challenging and controversial argument about how globalization can actually help Third World countries to develop and Read more…

By Aleksey (Adminstrator), 2 yearsAugust 13, 2024 ago

Global Social Justice

Report of the High-Level Commission on Carbon Prices

Policy Brief #16 The purpose of this Commission is to explore explicit carbon-pricing options and levels that would induce the change in behaviors – particularly in those driving the investments in infrastructure, technology, and equipment—needed to deliver on the temperature objective of the Paris Agreement, in a way that fosters Read more…

By Wanja Wambu, 2 yearsAugust 12, 2024 ago

Economics & Policy

Recognising and rewarding care work: the role of public policies

What renders the measurement of the care economy and of the extent of care work so challenging? Why is the inclusion of unpaid care work even more difficult? And why is measuring the demand for care close to impossible?

By Wanja Wambu, 2 yearsAugust 12, 2024 ago

Development Economics

The structure of care work and inequalities among care workers

Care work is already one of the most important forms of human work across the world, and is likely to become even more significant in the coming years.

By Wanja Wambu, 2 yearsAugust 12, 2024 ago

Economics & Policy

Defining Care: conceptualisations and particularities

Care work is already one of the most essential forms of human work across the world, and is likely to become even more significant in the coming years.

By Wanja Wambu, 2 yearsAugust 12, 2024 ago

Capital Markets and Investments

How Not to Count the Poor!

Reddy and Pogge (2002) claim that the World Bank has systematically underestimated the extent of poverty in the world in the 1990s, and overestimated its rate of decline. This note argues that their claims do not stand up to close inspection and that there are serious concerns about their proposed alternative method of counting the world’s poor.

By Aleksey (Adminstrator), 2 yearsAugust 9, 2024 ago

Business & Society

How Not to Count the Poor! A Reply to Ravallion

We are grateful for Martin Ravallion’s detailed and sincere attempt to respond to our criticisms of the World Bank’s methodology for measuring global income poverty. However, in this reply to Ravallion, we show that his attempt to defend the World Bank’s methodology is unconvincing.

By Aleksey (Adminstrator), 2 yearsAugust 9, 2024 ago

Africa

IPD’s Africa Task Force focuses on the special challenges facing economic development and poverty in Africa after the continent’s disappointing economic performance over the past quarter century. Many policies that have been implemented in Africa have patently failed.

By Aleksey (Adminstrator), 2 yearsJuly 29, 2024 ago