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Global Monitoring Report, 2009: A Development Emergency
A Development Emergency: the title of this year's Global Monitoring Report, the sixth in an annual series, could not be more apt. The global economic crisis, the most severe since the Great Depression, is rapidly turning into a human and development crisis. No region is immune. The poor countries are especially vulnerable, as they have the least cushion to withstand events. The crisis, coming on the heels of the food and fuel crises, poses serious threats to their hard-won gains in boosting economic growth and reducing poverty. It is pushing millions back into poverty and putting at risk the very survival of many. The prospect of reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, already a cause for serious concern, now looks even more distant. A global crisis must be met with a global response. The crisis began in the financial markets of developed countries, so the first order of business must be to stabilize these markets and counter the recession that the financial turmoil has triggered. At the same time, strong and urgent actions are needed to counter the impact of the crisis on developing countries and help them restore strong growth while protecting the poor. Global Monitoring Report 2009, prepared jointly by the staff of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, provides a development perspective on the global economic crisis. It assesses the impact on developing countries, their growth, poverty reduction, and other MDGs. And it sets out priorities for policy response, both by developing countries themselves and by the international community. This report also focuses on the ways in which the private sector can be better mobilized in support of development goals, especially in the aftermath of the crisis.
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UN contributions to development thinking and practice
UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice is at once a
history of the ideas and realities of international development, from the classical
economists to the recent emphasis on human rights, and a history of the UN's role in
shaping and implementing development paradigms over the last half century. The
authors, all prominent in the field of development studies, argue that the UN's
founding document, the UN Charter, is infused with the human values and human
concerns that are at the center of the UN's thinking on economic and human
development today. In the intervening period, the authors show how the UN's approach
to development evolved from mainstream areas of economic development to include
issues of employment, poverty reduction, fairer distribution of the benefits of
growth, equality of men and women, child development, social justice, and
environmental sustainability.
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Migrant Remittances
This article is about the economics of migrant remittances sent to developing countries. I review the overall magnitude of remittances and what current research reveals about the motivations for migrant remittances and what effects they have. I discuss field experimental evidence on migrant desires for control over the uses of their remittances. I highlight some key distinctive characteristics of remittances—such as their high frequency and relatively small individual magnitudes—as well as recent experimental evidence on the effect of reductions in remittance transaction fees, and outline a research agenda on the microeconomics of remittance decision making. Finally, I discuss what the future holds for remittances, considering aggregate trends but also approaches likely to be taken by international development agencies, national governments, the private sector, and academic economists.
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Development, Security, and Aid
In Development, Security, and Aid Jamey Essex offers a sophisticated study of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), examining the separate but intertwined discourses of geopolitics and geoeconomics. Geopolitics concentrates on territory, borders, and strategic political and military positioning within the international state system. Geoeconomics emphasizes economic power, growth, and connectedness within a global, and supposedly borderless, system. Both discourses have strongly influenced the strategies of USAID and the views of American policy makers, bureaucrats, and business leaders toward international development. Providing a unique geographical analysis of American development policy, Essex details USAID's establishment in 1961 and traces the agency's growth from the Cold War into an era of neoliberal globalization up to and beyond 9/11, the global war on terror, and the looming age of austerity. USAID promotes improvement for millions by providing emergency assistance and support for long-term economic and social development. Yet the agency's humanitarian efforts are strongly influenced, and often trumped, by its mandate to advance American foreign policies. As a site of, a strategy for, and an agent in the making of geopolitics and geoeconomics, USAID, Essex argues, has often struggled to reconcile its many institutional mandates and objectives. The agency has always occupied a precarious political position, one that is increasingly marked by the strong influence of military, corporate, and foreign-policy institutions in American development strategy.
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Examining barriers and facilitators of capacity building in development: a systematic review of international development projects
This study systematically reviews capacity building projects and programs within the field of international development cooperation, with the aim of identifying key facilitators and barriers across different levels of implementation. While capacity building is increasingly recognized as a central mechanism for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), existing frameworks remain fragmented and conceptually inconsistent. To address this gap, the article proposes a level-based analytical framework that disaggregates capacity development into individual, organizational, and systemic components and conducts a systematic review of peer-reviewed literature. Guided by the PRISMA methodology, this study integrates qualitative synthesis with quantitative text mining and word cloud analysis to uncover thematic patterns and frequently cited success factors. Key success factors include local ownership, partnerships, and context-sensitive training. Conversely, barriers such as misalignment, institutional instability, and resource constraints are shown to significantly hinder capacity outcomes. This study contributes both theoretically by clarifying the operational components of capacity building and practically by offering a diagnostic tool for project design and evaluation. It provides development practitioners and policymakers with actionable insights to enhance the effectiveness and sustainability of capacity building interventions.
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