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Taxing the People, Not Trade: the International Monetary Fund and the Structure of Taxation in Develo** Countries
Strengthening fiscal capacity in low- and middle-income countries is essential for achieving sustainable development. The International Monetary...
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Sustainability of Global Fund Grants
This chapter analyzes the sustainability of the Global Fund grants to the Kyrgyz Republic by elaborating on the continuity of project activities,...
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Who adjusts? Exchange rate regimes and finance versus labor under IMF programs
Who adjusts under International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs and why? In this paper, I demonstrate that labor groups adjust when there is a fixed...
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Institutional Justice and the Ethical Dimension of Contractual Development at the International System. A Case Study of the Bretton Woods Institutions
This chapter reconstruct the evolution of the contractual approach to justice of international institutions such as the World Bank and the...
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EU Economic and Monetary Integration in the Age of Global Finance
This chapter explores the relationship among three dynamics that featured in the political economy of European unification during the 1980s: the...
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The Poisson Method of Poverty Measurement Using Non-monetary Indicators: A Replication Study Based on Australian Data
This study revisits the Poisson-based framework to derive optimal thresholds of relative deprivation in the Australian context. Poverty measurement...
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Economic crises and the survival of international organizations
How do hard economic times affect countries’ foreign policy and, specifically, their international commitments? Although a large body of literature...
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The power of having powerful friends: Evidence from a new dataset of IMF negotiating missions, 1985-2020
When countries are confronted with a crisis and have no alternative but to turn to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), speed is of the essence....
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Describing of central banks’ monetary policy in the context to linear and nonlinear taylor rule: the case of Turkey
This study analyzes whether the original and expanded Taylor rules are valid in determining policy interest rates, which are used as the main...
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Cost–Benefit Analysis (CBA) or the Highway? An Alternative Road to Investigating the Value for Money of International Development Research
Research for development (R4D) funding is increasingly expected to demonstrate value for money (VfM). However, the dominance of positivist approaches...
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Treaty withdrawal and the development of international law
I argue that treaty withdrawal has two opposing effects on the development of international law. First, it directly impacts the treaty where it...
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The contributions of international organisations towards socio-economic development: the experience of UNICEF in the Northern Region of Ghana
This study aims to analyze the contributions of International Organizations (IOs), particularly UNICEF towards the socioeconomic development of the...
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The unintended consequences of IMF programs: Women left behind in the labor market
Despite societal progress toward achieving gender equality, women remain disadvantaged across all walks of life. We examine how pressures by the...
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Good governance in autocratic international organizations
A large and growing number of international organizations (IOs) are made up and governed by illiberal or outright authoritarian regimes. Many of...
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International environmental policy processes that dispossessed develo** societies of public land resources: A case study of Nepal
Public lands including forests and community pastures are still crucial means of local livelihood, social security, and environmental conservation in...
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The Dollar Cycle of International Development, 1973–2017
Since the 1970s, develo** countries across the world have collectively experienced a series of economic upswings and downturns. Existing theories...
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Financing for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond
The economic and social impact of covid-19 pandemic both on develo** and developed countries has been significant. In addition to the impact of the...
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Population Institutions and International Population Conferences
After World War II, population trends emerged as an international concern. Better demographic data alerted the world to the rapid population growth...