The promise was that a richer world would be both better for the worst-off and friendlier to the countries financing its growth. Aid economists treated poor countries as small rich ones that ...

Why are rich countries more polarized on social customs? The study shows that people in poor countries have conservative views on these issues—for example, claiming that abortion and divorce are ...

The initiative, backed by seven former African heads of state, is calling for a plan modelled after the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) programme of the 1990s, to allow debtors to deal with ...

The most important innovation has been the PRSP process. Poverty reduction strategy papers (PRSPs) are prepared in all low-income countries intending to borrow from the IMF or World Bank or access ...

Many past resource booms in poor countries have failed to improve the lot of those countries substantially ... When the United Kingdom discovered oil in 1966, the satire magazine Punch carried a ...