Projects

A study aiming to relate long term environmental change, population growth, production and technological change, and to identify the policies and institutions which are conducive to sustainable development. The first stage, published in these Working Papers, is to...

This project reviews the developments in the 1980s; examining the Fund as a source of finance and issues in its lending policies; reviews the theory and practice of IMF policy conditionality and of heterodox alternatives to it; and explores the future role of the Fund.

Five country papers were prepared as part of a study of export diversification by the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) signatories of the Lomé Conventions. The study is in two parts. The first involved an analysis of trade statistics to identify which states have...

This major ODI research project evaluates the effectiveness of projects of non-government organisations (NGOs) in raising the economic status of the poor in four countries: Bangladesh, India, Uganda and Zimbabwe. It attempts to provide a framework for detailed...

This project is a series of draft chapters of a book prepared with the provisional title of The Adaptive Economy; Adjustment Policies in Low-income Countries. The Working Papers in this series focused on defining the need for structural adaptation, exploring the...