The area of women’s empowerment has attracted increasing attention among a wide range of interest groups, from authors to researchers to feminist scholars and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). This paper aims to identify the diverse understandings of women’s empowerment in the...

This study analyses the impact of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, a financial inclusion scheme, on female empowerment in India using a triple difference-in-difference model. Given that empowerment can take various forms, we use mobile phone ownership as its proxy. Our empirical study finds...

This study addresses the problem of countries struggling to achieve national development despite investing in development. It aims to identify the fundamental driver of development in these scenarios by exploring the empirical impacts of investment into development projects and public sector...

This paper evaluates the effect of development project aid from the World Bank and China on firms' sales growth, using a large dataset of 110864 firms, spanning 121 countries between 2001 and 2016. We find that, contrary to the World Bank, Chinese ODA projects increase, on average, firm sales...

Although research has established the importance of state capacity in economic development, less is known about how to build that capacity and the role of external partners in the process. This paper estimates the impact of a typical development project designed to build state capacity in a...

This paper evaluates the effect of development project aid from the World Bank and China on firms' sales growth, using a large dataset of 110864 firms spanning 121 countries between 2001 and 2016. We find that, contrary to the World Bank, Chinese ODA projects increase, on average, firm sales...

This research took the form of a qualitative study to evaluate the experiences of project management practitioners and identify barriers affecting the application of strategic project management best practices in public research and development projects. Twenty in-depth interviews were conducted...

In India development of rural areas are not a new concept it is existing from 1952. In past 65 years lot of rural development programs have been launched. The main motive of these programs are not only increase capital income or living standard of village people but also to cover all fields...

Although research has established the importance of state capacity in economic development, less is known about how to build that capacity and the role of external partners in the process. This paper estimates the impact of a typical development project designed to build state capacity in a...

On average, appraisals find aid projects to be less effective in the Pacific than elsewhere in the developing world. In this study, we use a new multi-donor data set to study why aid projects are less effective in the region. We find the clearest impediments to effectiveness in the Pacific are...

Infrastructure is an important sector wherein all the countries need to work a lot to achieve overall development. India being developing country is working rigorously in the field of infrastructural advancement. However, lots of recourses are required to full fill the wants of individuals...

The National Community Driven Development Project (NCDDP) is one of Myanmar's largest development programs. Since it started in 2013, NCDDP has supported over 21,000 basic infrastructure and services sub-projects in 12,000 villages covering 63 townships, approximately one-fifth of the country....

Providing financial services at reasonable price to the financially excluded section of society is one of the key enablers of economic development. “Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana” (PMJDY) is one of the major schemes for providing financial services at a reasonable price. The main aim of the...

While judicial bodies have proliferated in the last fifty years in a process that has been deemed “quasi-anarchic”(Guillaume,G., 2000) creating a risk of inconsistency in their decisions which would endanger the international law system, quasi-judicial bodies such as Multilateral Development...

"This book focusses on the potential natural resources of Bangladesh from Precambrian to Recent times, and their detailed geological background. Natural resources and their management are most important for the sustainable economic development of a country. Focusing on the geological setting of...

"Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective describes the dramatic acceleration of the global and political economy in a story that has four parts: colonialism, the development era, the current era of globalization, and global counter-movements for equity and sustainability. The text,...

It often seems that use of participative approaches in the development of information systems (IS) has reached the status of a new orthodoxy: a ‘magic bullet' technique that is always relevant, always beneficial in trying to overcome the high failure rate of information systems. Yet...

This paper investigates the trends and the influencing factors of IFAD's project disbursement performance over the past 20 years. Based on data from 577 projects in 111 countries, the study finds that disbursement of funds are often delayed and time-consuming.Using econometric analysis, the...

This report presents results of an ex-post impact assessment (IA) of select components of the PRICE project relating to coffee, horticulture and financial services. The IA was conducted between May 2017 and July 2018 and used both qualitative and quantitative research methods. The current report...

Smallholder farmers in developing countries often lack appropriate cereal storage facilities which can contribute to food insecurity and low cereal commercialization, particularly when they can only rely on one cropping season with no irrigation. Lack of quality storage can lead to post-harvest...

The governance of public sector infrastructure projects became an important topic of interest in the project, program, and portfolio management literature during the last decade. Today, it is becoming a central focus for policymakers seeking to ensure success in selecting, designing, and...

India is seen as a key developmental partner to Nepal with the latter being one of the first receipts of development aid from India. Development aid from India to Nepal has not only been associated with creation of infrastructure in the country but also with human capital development and...

As big technological companies expand across the Seattle Metropolitan area, real estate construction is exploding in downtown Seattle where homelessness due to development-induced displacement is concerning. To this end, the internal displacement of vulnerable populations, including Indigenous...

Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating...

Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating...

Reassessing The Philanthropist's Burden -- Everybody Wants to Change the World: The Boom in International Philanthropy -- Lessons from the Contemporary Global Philanthropy Practice -- The Community Bank Model of International Philanthropy -- Rise Up & Care, The Demonstration Project --...

Development projects, nearly always all hope and optimism at their inception, have often failed to maintain their impetus and impact in the long run. This is usually because they have failed from the outset to account for how imbalances of power, legacies of colonialism and global wealth...