Development Economics and Public Policy Working Papers

This paper considers the impact of cash transfer programmes for the old in Brazil and South Africa on poverty among households with older people. Using datasets collected [...]

The role of an effective regulatory regime in promoting economic growth and development and therefore international business has generated considerable interest among res [...]

This paper uses Uganda National Household Survey (UNHS) data to investigate, via a discrete choice model, the main determinants associated with seeking private, governmen [...]

The change in government in 1991 brought about radical economic reform, from state control to an economy led by private sector development. The reforms included decentral [...]

This paper discusses the corporate governance of banking institutions in developing economies. This is an important issue given the essential role banks play in the finan [...]

The article reassesses the contribution of Sir Arthur Lewis's 1954 article entitled "Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour" to our understanding of econo [...]

The paper investigates the complex system of causes affecting tropical deforestation at a worldwide level. There is no generally accepted theory in the deforestation lite [...]

Since the 1990s, accelerating economic growth has regained its dominance in the anti poverty strategies. However, the rising tendency of income inequity at the global lev [...]

This study identifies the effect of technology shocks on aggregate output using confirmatory factor analysis employed by Griliches, Hall and Pakes (1991). The analysis is [...]