Public works programmes are becoming increasingly popular in international development cooperation. Still we know very little about long-terms…
Public works (PW) programmes are long-standing development interventions that have
infighting, entrenched structural inequalities and widespread perceptions of corruption have
Many governments are under pressure to mobilise revenues at home. More international cooperation is needed to support them. In particular, additional…
Domestic revenues have been growing in a majority of low- and lower-middle-income
Only few micro and small enterprises succeed to upgrade in low and middle income countries – and these tend to be the privileged ones: Most of them…
Some are able to upgrade despite the constraints, but they have to struggle to sustain
Does decentralization benefit river basin management or does it create competition among subnational administrations and river basin organizations in…
AEAs have somewhat higher budgets, but do not necessarily use these funds for water-related
Multilateral co-operation has come up against its limits in recent years. Minilateral or plurilateral pioneer alliances can lend new impetus to…
For example, efforts to achieve an international climate treaty have taken many years
As the European Fund for Sustainable Development (EFSD) enters the implementation phase, this paper reviews the features of this blended finance…
fund’s implementation will depend largely on development finance institutions that have
Additional actors, mainly from the South, have emerged or re-emerged and are challenging
that this agreement allows the Mercosur countries to export products in which they have
Many governments adopt policies to attract foreign direct investment (FDI). What are implications of rising market concentration for FDI impacts?…
The current trend to rising market concentration also begs the question: Have FDI
