This book is a story of one village, Yantian, and its remarkable economic and social transformation. The village sits in the Pearl River…
Will reforms emerging from the 2008 crisis have a global impact and influence developing countries? Evidence suggests that this happened…
Does democratic governance expand wealth and prosperity? There is no consensus about this issue despite the fact that for more than half a…
This paper examines the potential role of civil society action in increasing state accountability for development in Sub-Saharan Africa. It…
This paper compares Japan and the US as they provide different types of capital to the developing world, focusing especially on foreign aid…
As we consider over two decades of change in Bolivia, it now seems to us that understanding history involves adjusting short-term…
Governance indicators have come under fire in
recent years, especially the World Governance Indicators. Critics
present these…