Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2002: toward pro-poor policies: aid, institutions and globalization

The report contains papers on aid, institutions and globalization, providing a general overview of links between poverty, inequality and growth. The papers also address specific topics such as the heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) initiative for debt reduction.

Papers include

• Toward Pro-Poor Policies: An Overview by Bertil Tungodden, Ivar Kolstad, and Nicholas Stern
• Aid Scaling Up: The Challenge of Monterrey by Nicholas Stern
• New Perspectives on Aid Effectiveness by David Roland-Holst and Finn Tarp
• In Search of the Holy Grail: How to Achieve Pro-Poor Growth? by Stephan Klasen
• Aid and Growth Revisited: Policy, Economic Vulnerability and Political Instability by Lisa Chauvet and Patrick Guillaumont
• Crisis, Political Institutions, and Policy Reform: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by Mariano Tommasi
• State Failure in Developing Countries and Institutional Reform Strategies by Mushtaq H. Khan
• Lessons from the 1997–98 East Asian Crises by Jomo Kwame Sundaram
• Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment: Globalization-Induced Changes and the Role of Policiesby John H. Dunning Income Distribution, Factor Endowments
• Globalizing Talent and Human Capital: Implications for Developing Countries by Andrés Solimano
• The Economics of the Brain Drain Turned on Its Head by Oded Stark