Beyond the Mysteries of the “Middle-Income Trap”
Erinç Yeldan The concept of the “middle-income trap” had been brought into fashion by Barry Eichengreen and colleagues (see their recent NBER Working Paper). The concept is used to describe the...
View ArticleQuality Not Quantity: European Parliament Report on Role of Private Finance
Jesse Griffiths, Guest Blogger Jesse Griffiths is Director of the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad). He was one of the co-authors, together with Matthew Martin (Development Finance...
View ArticleGujarat v. UPA: Models of Non-Governance?
Sunita Narain The 2014 general election, it would seem, is becoming a referendum on the so-called Gujarat model and the something-UPA model. In the heat, dust and filth of elections, rhetoric is high,...
View ArticleWhy is Calorie Intake Falling if Incomes are Rising in India?
Deepankar Basu and Amit Basole, Guest Bloggers Deepankar Basu is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Amit Basole is an assistant professor of economics at...
View ArticleUnited Progressive Alliance-2 and Welfare Schemes
C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh A perception has been gaining ground that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coalition suffered politically because of its commitment to welfare schemes and...
View ArticleLand Degradation, Less Favored Lands and the Rural Poor: A Growing Global...
Edward B. Barbier This summer, I completed with a graduate student of mine a major report for the Economics of Land Degradation Initiative, which is entitled Land Degradation, Less Favored Lands and...
View ArticleGeographical Poverty Traps in Rural Areas: A Growing Global Problem
Edward Barbier More than one-third of the rural population in developing countries lives on less-favored agricultural land, according to global spatial datasets from 2000. How, then, does this...
View ArticleWorld Bank Researchers Punch South Africa’s Poor and Coddle the Rich
Subsidized white capitalists and oppressed activists are amongst those who must “not be named” By Patrick Bond “South Africa can claim to have one of the world’s most redistributive public purses,”...
View ArticlePoverty, Vulnerability and Social Protection
Jomo Kwame Sundaram According to the World Bank, the MDG target of halving the share of the poor was achieved by 2008, well in advance of 2015, the target year. However, increased unemployment and...
View ArticleGrowing Inequality Under Global Capitalism
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury Income and wealth inequality has increased in recent decades, but recognition of the role of economic liberalization and globalization in exacerbating inequality...
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