1. Introduction -- 2. The way forward : how do 'inclusive' alliances happen? -- 3. The fiscal politics of mineral development in Ghana -- 4. Zambia : democratisation without a 'social dividend'? -- 5. Bolivia : a 'hybrid' political economy? -- 6. The politics of inclusive fiscal policy -- 7....

Sir Arthur Lewis was the first development economist, the first Afro-Caribbean to hold a professorial chair at a British university and the first black man to win the Nobel prize for economics. However, he believed his contributions to the well-being of the poor through social and political...

1. Introduction -- 2. Scope and method -- 3. Financial performance of CDFIs -- 4. CDFI clients : impacts on individuals -- 5. CDFI clients : community-level impacts -- 6. Fiscal impacts -- 7. Where next?

Both in its institutional range and in its penetration of financial markets, the microfinance sector in Bolivia rivals any in the world, and has played a major part in extracting the macro-economy from meltdown since the mid-1980s. We seek specifically to assess its impact on poverty, and do...

In this paper we consider the hypothesis that aid effectiveness can be linked to 'good policies' and thus that aid, if it is to have maximum impact, should be directed at countries following good policies. This is an idea which we have considerable sympathy with in principle and have built upon...

Has the increasingly pro-poor stance of the World Bank, as manifested in particular in its most recent World Development Report (WDR), caused it to abandon its traditionally free-market attitudes ? The answer is 'yes and no'. The pursuit of 'security' espoused by the WDR has forced the Bank to...