Remittances are growing substantially in the developing world, surpassing foreign aid and, in several nations, reaching more than 20 per cent of their Gross Domestic Product. The relevance of these capital inflows for the recipient economies has been discussed in previous work, but the evidence...

The spread and rapid uptake of mobile telephony in Sub-Saharan Africa has highlighted the potential role of Information Communication Technologies in improving market participation and welfare outcomes for farm producers in agricultural produce markets. This article explores the influence of...

Research and development (R&D) activities of firms in developing countries (DCs) have been gaining in importance for nationwide economic growth and development, while globalization of the world economy offers a number of opportunities for fostering knowledge-creating activities. Therefore, a...

How do we identify and highlight countries achieving equitable Millennium Development Goal (MDG) progress? The answer lies in how we measure MDG progress. The current approach focuses solely on scale. Most policymakers have focused on the size, rather than the shape of change. Measuring...

This article discusses how international development actors providing aid to the justice sector in legally plural contexts can support reforms to the normative framework for legal pluralism that contribute to advancing human rights. Based on the case of Mozambique, the article argues that...

The proliferation of aid donors and channels for aid and the resulting fragmentation brings about huge costs for developing and donor countries and has a detrimental effect on the impact of aid. Coordination is presented as a strategy to help resolve this problem and has been at the top of the...

This study compares the relative efficacy of microcredit recipient men and women in utilizing credit to achieve functionings in order to explore their specific capability enhancing needs. It is argued that the existing comparison criteria are solely from the institutional perspective and...

We address the question of whether foreign aid helps attract foreign direct investment (FDI). This could be achieved if well-targeted aid removed critical impediments to higher FDI inflows. In particular, we test the hypothesis that aid for education is an effective means to increase FDI flows...