Education is a key area for knowledge-based, globalising economies. McMahon develops a new approach for measuring the social benefits of education and finding more cost effective policies.
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"This completely revised version of the successful 1995 text covers a wide range of issues relating to research concepts and methods. It incorporates new lessons that have been learned regarding the merits and pitfalls of development work." "This text offers invaluable practical…
Publ. in association with UNEP/GRID-Arendal, Norway.
This dissertation examines the opposing Christian financial support theories of When Helping Hurts, by Brian Fikkert and Stephen Corbett, and When Helping Works, by Michael Badriaki, to provide a starting point for cross-cultural giving rooted in four-self church partnering prin…
Comprises papers presented at the ASEAN Roundtable of 18 June 2009. Covers issues of social, strategic and political implications, the economy and finance.
Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world's poor. But much of the work they do is based on assumptions that are untested generalizations at best, flat out harmful misperceptions at worst. Banerjee and D…
Why did some countries grow rich while others remained poor? Tracing the long arc of human history from hunter gatherer societies to the early twenty first century, Andrew Brooks rejects popular explanations for the divergence of nations. This accessible and illuminating volume …
This volume brings together essays by thirty-four leading economists about the most important things they have learnt from their research that relate to poverty. The essays range from the impact of colonialism and globalization to the future of micro-credit and the quest for new…
This research work analyzes two comparative cases of World Bank poverty alleviation development programs in Bangladesh and Uganda. The work investigates the internal and external conditions under which poverty alleviation programs may increase in-country income inequality. It wa…
Recently governments in developing countries have targeted economically disadvantaged communities in order to effectively alleviate poverty. In Indonesia, for example, the IDT program provided targeted villages with grants for small business loans. Chapter 1 addresses the impact…
The expansion of financial services to the poor, now widely referred to as microfinance, quickly saw tremendous success in Bangladesh beginning in the 1970's and was exported to a number of other countries. For a time microfinance was spoken of as a panacea, in part because it i…
This dissertation explores the emergence and evolution of global microlending practices for the poor now at the forefront of the contemporary international debate on poverty alleviation research and policy. It uses narrative analysis methodology to (1) critically examine the fou…
It is unlikely that, without active intervention, the Palestinian economy will climb out of recession in the medium-run, particularly as certain Israeli-imposed closures remain in place and as the characteristics of a war-torn economy linger. The discussion in premised on the as…
This study examines a recent policy proposal that as a way out of poverty, third world countries should reform their present land policy to incorporate a cadastral system. The proponents of this policy reform have argued that the poorest nations of the world require formalizatio…
Starting with the arguably most important target goal of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, namely to halve the number of people living in extreme poverty by the year 2015, the present thesis will explore the role of economic growth through private sector developme…