Rabah Arezki a Nonresident Fellow at the Navarra Center of International Development and a Senior Economist at the IMF Research Department published an article about how natural-resource-rich countries risk capital flight as multinational corporations seek to avoid taxes. Rabah Arezki wrote this piece aong with Gregoire Rota-Graziosi, a Senior Economist in the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department, and Lemma W. Senbet, the Executive Director of the African Economic Research Consortium.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, widely considered among the ...
Blanca Moreno-Dodson, a member of the Steering Committee of the Navarra Center for International Development, has recently led the production of a new World Bank book entitled Is Fiscal Policy the Answer? A Developing Country Perspective. The book is a collection of chapters from several World Bank economists, including herself, whose research incorporates looking at the connection between fiscal policy and economic development, with a special focus on emerging and lower income countries. The argument put forth in the introduction states that the sluggishness of the advanced world following...
Senior Lecturer and Academic Director of the Master in Public Policy Management, Dr. Robert Mudida presented a paper entitled ‘The African Continent and Development Aid: Does it work?’ during a conference of the International Catholic Legislators Network (ICLN) in Frascati, Italy between August 29th and September 1st 2013.
The ICLN is a platform for Catholic Law makers to share ideas, experience and information as well as the gathering of like-minded people.
In this paper, Dr. Mudida challenges many of the arguments put forward in Dambisa Moyo’s book, Dead Aid...