Matching grant programs administered to agricultural groups and cooperatives have emerged as a means of helping smallholder farmers to commercialize in Nepal. These programs help farmers to access information on new technologies, overcome barriers to productive investment, and connect with...

This paper sets out to provide an introduction to two sets of questions, and to some relevant literature that has tried to answer them. The first set of questions concern what determines growth in low-income countries, and how the answers are conditioned by the history of fiscal policy design...

This book focuses on sustainable and inclusive structural transformation and the need to go beyond aid in a multipolar world. Historically, structural transformation has been a powerful engine of growth and job creation. Traditional development aid is inadequate to address the bottlenecks for...

This article investigates empirically the interaction between countries' Comparative Advantage Following (CAF) development strategy and Aid for Trade (AfT ) interventions in influencing the extent of structural change in production. Based on the Generalized Methods of Moments and an unbalanced...

This book focuses on sustainable and inclusive structural transformation and the need to go beyond aid in a multi-polar world. Historically, structural transformation has been a powerful engine of growth and job creation. Traditional development aid is inadequate to address the bottlenecks for...

Die Unterscheidung zwischen bi- und multilateraler EZ ist oftmals nicht eindeutig möglich, vielmehr gibt es verschiedene Zwischen- und Sonderformen. Grundsätzlich gibt es zwei Sichtweisen auf das multilaterale EZ-System: 1) Die Perspektive eines funktionsfähigen "Patchwork-Ansatzes" für...