Drawing on a database of more than one hundred anti-poverty interventions in 47
countries,'Targeting of Transfers in Developing Countries' provides a general review of …

This paper surveys the economic literature on the scaling-up of aid to Africa. It provides a
checklist of issues that need to be considered when preparing a long term macroeconomic …

International development is big business. Official global aid flows from North to South are
over $100 billion annually. China and India, former aid recipients, are rapidly entering the …

This paper synthesises evidence on 23 communitydriven development programmes. It
combines narrative synthesis and meta-analysis to examine the impact of these …

What types of leaders are effective in organizing public goods that require community
contributions? In many settings, both citizens and state agencies provide financing, labor …

Funding for the reproductive health agenda agreed at the 1994 International Conference on
Population and Development has fallen short of estimated requirements. In the changed …

The benefit incidence and impact of projects financed by the Nicaraguan Emergency Social
Investment Fund are investigated using a sample of beneficiaries, a national household …

Technical developments in the sphere of distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) provide the
opportunity to enhance existing tools of social funding. In a first step, we elaborate their …

" Enhancing Job Opportunities: Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union addresses why
labor market outcomes have been disappointing during the transition and suggests policy …

Efficient delivery of public services in Africa and other developing regions has for a long time
been hindered by highly centralized government bureaucracies (Mwabu et al., 2001). In …