Over 1 billion people currently live in slums, with the number of slum dwellers only expected
to grow in the coming decades. The vast majority of slums are located in and around urban …

Climate change, land degradation, and desertification lead to the loss of carbon present in
the soil and plants. The carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in the atmosphere has reached …

The widely publicized finding that “aid promotes growth in a good policy environment” is not
robust to the inclusion of new data or alternative definitions of “aid,”“policy” or “growth.” The …

Global interconnectedness can yield significant benefits, but can also create new systemic
risks. In a globalised world, systemic risk creates vulnerabilities such that a single node in a …

Well-meaning national and international bureaucracies dispense foreign aid under
conditions in which bureaucracy fails. The environment that created aid bureaucracies led …

Development Economics: Theory and Practice provides students and practitioners with the
perspectives and the tools they need to think analytically and critically about the current …

The record of the aid agencies over time seems to indicate weak evidence of progress in
response to learning from experience, new knowledge, or changes in political climate. The …

" Globalization and its relation to poverty reduction and development is not well understood.
The book identifies the ways in which globalization can overcome poverty or make it worse …

Bringing together psychological approaches to empathy with research on public preferences
for foreign development aid, we shed light on the role empathy plays in global helping …

Despite significant gains in promoting economic growth and living conditions (or" human
progress") globally over the last twenty-five years, much of the developing world remains …