The escalation in armed attacks on Nigeria's oil industry and the massive expansion in oil theft generated a veritable industry in the study of the political economy of war dominated by public-choice strands. Critical scholarship on the Niger Delta challenges this work for its neglect of history...

Globalization could and should benefit developing countries. But unlike a rising tide that lifts all boats, large and small, globalization is unequal. It has fallen far short of its much-ballyhooed potential to help the world's poorest people out of poverty. Instead, a combination of policies in...

What can governments in rich countries do about poverty in poor countries, apart from increasing and improving aid and endorsing ambitious poverty reduction goals? Answer: get serious about reforming their own farm policies and start dismantling the agricultural trade restrictions and subsidies...

Globalization could and should benefit developing countries. But unlike a rising tide that lifts all boats, large and small, globalization is unequal. It has fallen far short of its much-ballyhooed potential to help the world's poorest people out of poverty. Instead, a combination of policies in...

Extreme poverty blights the lives of one fifth of the world's population and denies more than 100 million children per year the chance of an education. Today in sub-Saharan Africa alone 45 million children are out of school and 313 million people are living on less than US $ 1 a day. 2005...

Extreme Armut beeinträchtigt das Leben eines Fünftels der Weltbevölkerung und hält 100 Mill. Kinder jährlich vom Besuch einer Schule ab. In Afrika allein besuchen 45 Mill. Kinder keine Schule, und 313 Mill. Menschen müssen mit weniger als einem US-Dollar pro Tag auskommen. Das Jahr 2005...

"The poor cannot afford education if they are left to pay for it themselves. Furthermore, given the right political structures government schools can deliver accountability and a good quality of education." Copyright (c) Blackwell Publishing 2004.