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Academic Research

Is Decentralization Good For Development: Perspectives from Academics and Policy Makers

Is decentralisation good for development? This book offers insights and lessons that help us understand when the answer is ‘Yes’, and when it is No’. It shows us how decentralisation can be designed to drive development forward, and focuses attention on how institutional incentives can be created for governments to improve public sector performance and strengthen economies in ways that enhance citizen well-being.

By Wanja Wambu, 1 yearAugust 16, 2024 ago

Global Social Justice

World Protests: A Study of Key Protest Issues in the 21st Century

This book analyzes almost three thousand protests that occurred between 2006 and 2020 in 101 countries covering over 93 per cent of the world population. The study focuses on the major demands driving world protests, such as those for real democracy, jobs, public services, social protection, civil rights, global justice, and those against austerity and corruption.

By Wanja Wambu, 1 yearAugust 15, 2024 ago

Economic History

Group Lending, Joint Liability, and Social Capital: Insights From the Indian Microfinance Crisis

Exactly ten years ago, microfinance was awarded the Nobel prize, promising to “put poverty in museums.” Today its legacy is quite different: 10 million defaulters in India alone. The experience of microfinance in South Asia—the frontier of the industry globally—presents a puzzle.

By Wanja Wambu, 1 yearAugust 14, 2024 ago

Development Economics

The Washington Consensus Reconsidered: Towards a New Global Governance

This volume brings together many of the leading international figures in development studies, such as 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics winner Paul Krugman, Jose Antonio Ocampo, Dani Rodrik, Joseph Stiglitz, Daniel Cohen, Olivier Blanchard, Deepak Nayyer and John Williamson to reconsider and propose alternative development policies to the Washington Consensus. Read more…

By Aleksey (Adminstrator), 1 yearAugust 13, 2024 ago

Financial Policy

Special Drawing Rights and the Reform of the Global Reserve System

Fundamental flaws in the current global reserve system have led to a massive build up of hard currency reserves that, in turn, have helped generate the global imbalances which cause deep systemic vulnerabilities. At the center of the unstable and unequal system is the capricious provision of the global reserve asset by a national entity coupled with the absence of an adequate collective insurance mechanism for states.

By Wanja Wambu, 1 year ago

Globalization

Covering Globalization: A Handbook for Reporters

The first journalism textbook for reporters who cover finance and economics in developing and transitional countries, Covering Globalization is an essential guide to the pressing topics of our times. Written by economists from the Asian Development Bank and the International Monetary Fund as well as journalists who have worked for Read more…

By Aleksey (Adminstrator), 1 yearAugust 12, 2024 ago

Global Social Justice

Brief: World Protests 2021-2022

Around the world, people have become increasingly angry at the failures of their governments to address their needs. More than any other issue in 2021-2022, the rising cost of living, paired with austerity reforms, has driven people around the world to the streets in protest.

By Wanja Wambu, 1 yearAugust 12, 2024 ago

Business & Society

Water Quality Issues in Developing Countries

Of all the environmental concerns that developing countries face, the lack of adequate water of
good quality is probably the most serious.

By Aleksey (Adminstrator), 1 yearAugust 9, 2024 ago

Global Social Justice

Income Inequalities in Perspective

Income and wealth inequalities in most countries – in the West, the former ‘communist’ economies and in the developing world – have been on the rise in the last three decades with some notable exceptions. Inequalities in the 19th century (Figure 1) were much higher than before the Industrial Revolution. Read more…

By Aleksey (Adminstrator), 1 yearAugust 8, 2024 ago

Global Social Justice

The Decade of Adjustment: A Review of Austerity Trends 2010-2020 in 187 Countries

“The Decade of Adjustment: A Review of Austerity Trends 2010-2020 in 187 Countries”, by Isabel Ortiz, Matthew Cummins, Jeronim Capaldo, Kalaivani Karunanethy. Geneva: ILO, IPD Columbia University and the South Centre. This paper: (i) examines the latest IMF government spending projections for 187 countries between 2005 and 2020; (ii) reviews Read more…

By Aleksey (Adminstrator), 1 yearAugust 8, 2024 ago