This chapter proposes an analytical framework and policy instruments to secure fiscal space
for financing a national development strategy. Our central premise is that the sustainability …

A development transformation requires a sustained period of increased investment spending
to support economic growth and deliver the basic services necessary to achieve human …

… Since then revenue shortfalls have hovered between five and seven per cent (Roy 2003).
While correlation does not automatically imply causation, it is clear that there was policy failure …

[Introduction ...] We analyse IMF policy recommendations proposed to 26 developing countries
in 2010 through its Article IV reports. The countries were chosen with the aim of having a …

The underground or ‘black economy’ has been a source of considerable concern to Indian
public policy analysts since the mid 1960s. In this article we argue that the black economy …

… development/edited by Rathin Roy and Antoine Heuty. … Chapter 1, by Rathin Roy and Antoine
Heuty, lays out the principal … Roy and Heuty argue that it is vital to understand how the plan …

… RATHIN ROY …

This book sheds new light on the political economy of public management reform. It
examines the new forms of economic decentralization and macroeconomic adjustment, and …

[Introduction] The fundamental development challenge in the Arab region is one of economic
transformation or, more pertinent, a lack thereof. Heavy sectoral weights of extractive …

" The only complaint I have against the system is that a considerable su of money must be
paid to the first fire engine that arrives, a smaller the second, and so on, thus... if all their efforts …