Development Economics & Emerging Economies

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are widely heralded as an opportunity for the poor to have greater access to information that can...

This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settle...

The report presents common economic trends and reviews prospects and policies for the coming year in light of the global economic environment. This...

The confluence of multiple adverse shocks - the turbulence in financial markets, high commodity prices, and the appreciation of the exchange rate -...

The current moment faced by the microfinance field reflects the opening lines from Charles Dickens'' A Tale of Two Cities: It was the best of time...

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the global practices, strategies and challenges of global economic development a...

Looking for accurate, up-to-date data on development issues? World Development Indicators is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data ab...

Global Development Finance 2011: External Debt of Developing Countries is a continuation of the World Bank's publications Global Development Financ...

With more than 1.5 billion people living in countries affected by conflict, the World Development Report 2011 (WDR) looks into the changing nature ...

The history of aluminum: metallurgy, engineering, global business and politics--and the advance of civilization itself. The earth's most abundan...

Local faith-based NGOs (FBOs) are a major force in international development. Almost all religious traditions call followers to charity and non-pro...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are widely heralded as an opportunity for the poor to have greater access to information that can...

After agriculture and tourism, artisan work provides the next most significant source of income in many developing countries. Yet because of its im...

Poverty is still widespread in Latin America, in spite of over five decades of international development efforts to eradicate it. While some progre...

The global scholarly community concerned with development and social transformation has identified explicit structural impediments that constra...

The global scholarly community concerned with development and social transformation has identified explicit structural impediments that constra...

U.S. aid to the Palestinians is intended to forward at least three major U.S. policy priorities of interest to Congress: 1) combating, neutralising...

The Regional Economic Outlook assesses the near-term outlook for each of the three subregions: the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Paki...