Financial Sector

The poverty-reducing impact of remittances can be enhanced by policy changes in both the migrants’ countries of origin - mostly developing countries - and their new home countries.

Martin Wolf asks: is aid petrol on a fire, or water on a plant? There are at least two negative views of aid (needless to say there are many positive ones, too). Both parallel views on the famous…

The Emerging Markets Group, a consulting firm, organised a recent workshop on Aligning Private Sector Development Instruments with the focus on Africa; I attended. The report is here. Most of the…

In the current Economist there is an excellent (and long) article on what the development community has tried to do for Africa, the lessons learnt, and what is needed going forward. The article is…

The Economist has a large and very interesting piece on the migration of World Bank thinking towards recognising that 'institutions' are important. Part of the difficulty, as Dani Rodrik…