Chandan Sapkota's blog

Developing countries lose between $20 billion and $40 billion each year to bribery, embezzlement, and other corrupt practices. Over the pas...

Investment in infrastructure can raise productivity, boost growth, and help reduce poverty. And, lack of infrastructure has been one of the ...

Lawrence Edward and Robert Z Lawrence argue that while AGOA helped Africa LDCs cope with the shock of the end of MFA and compete with stron...

Thanks largely to the subsidy Malawi has had seven years of economic growth, based on agriculture, which has had a major impact on reduc...

Nathan Nunn and Nancy Qian argue that food aid is determined by recipient country’s food shortages. But, food aid from some of the largest ...

[Adapted from Ratnakar Adhikari’s article in Trade Insight magazine, vol.6, No.3-4, 2010. p.25-28] The history of South-South developme...

A new report by UNRISD ( Combating Poverty and Inequality: Structural Change, Social Policies and Politics ) explores the causes, dynamics a...