Introduction: What are non-governmental organizations? -- Understanding NGOs in historical context -- NGOs and development theory -- NGOs and development : from alternative to mainstream? -- NGO roles in contemporary development practice -- NGOs and civil society -- NGOs and globalization --...

In rich and poor countries alike, a core challenge is building the state’s capability for policy implementation. Delivering high-quality public health and health care – affordably, reliably, at scale, for all – exemplifies this challenge, since doing so requires deftly integrating refined...

Many oil, mineral, and plantation crop-based economies experienced a substantial deceleration of growth since the commodity boom and bust of the 1970s and early 1980s. Rodrik (1999) has demonstrated that the magnitude of a country's growth deceleration since the 1970s is a function of both the...