This paper examines the possibilities for reducing urban poverty through three important categories of government interventions: ensuring the urban poor access to effective education and health services...
With the goal of increasing effectiveness in reducing poverty in all of its forms the World Bank undertakes studies about gender equality. This report is one of several already undertaken in other countries...
Does Mercosur's trade performance raise concerns about the effects of regional trade agreements?, by Alexander J. Yeats. A panel data analysis of the fungibility of foreign aid, by Tarhan Feyzioglu, Vinaya...
In theory, economic instruments should overcome the market failures that lead to excessive deforestation. Secure property rights can be established and enforced to eliminate the open access problem. In...
In conventional economic analysis, the costs of natural capital are systematically underestimated due to individual short-term incentives of decision makers, the presence of externalities and the large...