Through an analysis of Ghana's HIPC Fund which was established as part of the PRSP
process, this article shows how aid‐financed efforts to reduce regional inequality in Ghana …

The disappointing performance of conventional public sector reforms in developing
countries has led to the rise of 'new'approaches seeking to overcome traditional …

Why, despite over a decade of sustained and high quality political economy analysis, does it
seem that we aren't getting any closer to politically informed programming being the norm …

Across the world the Western dominated international aid system is being challenged. The
rise of right-wing populism, de-globalisation, the advance of illiberal democracy and the …

International aid plays an ambivalent and contested role in stabilising the global system. It
creates asym-metrical relationships between donors and recipients that succeed when their …

Executive summary Extreme poverty is forecast to become increasingly concentrated in
fragile states. At the same time that fragile states have moved up the development agenda …

This book presents the assumptions, narratives, and institutions that underpin the key
concepts and investigates the limits and potential of financial inclusion development strategy …

Promoting constitutional law is an important sphere of action for German foreign and
development policy. It is not a monopoly of the state, however, but is implemented by …

This chapter explores the application of feminist political economy theory as a critical
framework for analysing political-economic issues, ranging from household-level …

This paper is one of a series aimed at deepening the World Bank's capacity to follow through
on commitments made in response to the World Development Report 2011 (WDR), which …