Final Report from the GAT to GFAR
Transforming Agricultural Research for Development The Global Forum for Agricultural Research (GFAR) Report for the Global Conference on Agricultural Research (GCARD 2010)
The Changing Aid Architecture: Can Global Initiatives Eradicate Poverty?
Recently almost all the major official donors of aid have promised to double their aid levels. And new champions of the global poor, notably Gates, Bono, Buffett, and Clinton, have helped to dramatically raise aid funding from unconventional sources. But what the new resources achieve will depend greatly on how they are channeled. A larger […]
The share of official development assistance (ODA) going to global programs has increased considerably during the past decade while overall ODA has stagnated at about $45 million annually (Ferroni and Mody, p. 19). According to Hewitt, Morrissey, and te Veldt, spending on international public goods represented 5.0% of overall ODA in 1980-82, 6.8% in 1990-92, […]
Designing International Cooperation for Accelerating Productivity Growth in Developing Countries
The end of the Cold War and the ushering in of a young new administration of the post-World War II generation in the United States offer an important opportunity to explore the lessons of the past experience in economic development and international development cooperation to identify their implications for the future.
Competitive grants in the new millennium: A global workshop for designers and practitioners
The workshop provided a forum for the exchange of experiences in the design and implementation of competitive grant programs for research and extension (CGPs). This report provides a brief outline of concerns and lessons learned from common experiences in competitive programs from country, regional, and donor perspectives. It provides country case studies, and the various […]
Structural Adjustment and Agriculture: A Comparative Perspective on Performance in Africa, Asia…
In this paper I argue that structural adjustment has diverted attention from the central issues in the development of smallholder agriculture. Yet increasing factor productivity in agriculture is crucial for resuming rapid economic growth, alleviating poverty, increasing women’s participation, and saving the environment.
Security, Population and Development
Dramatic developments in the Soviet Union and the Communist block countries and the precipitous end of the cold war provide a historic opportunity to address the twin problems of economic development and population growth. Arms production, size of the military forces, and employment of public resources are already on the decline in industrial and Eastern […]