This rapid literature review collates academic and grey literature pertaining to the war economy in North-East Nigeria. The review finds the evidence base on this subject to be limited and disjoi...
https://gsdrc.org/publications/war-economy-in-north-east-nigeria/
Covid-19 is likely to cause much greater economic damage than any recent disease outbreak or economic crisis (Shretta, 2020). As of April 2020, the IMF is forecasting that the global economy is l...
Iraq faces significant economic challenges, in particular stemming from its dependence on oil revenue and the country’s bloated public sector. Private sector growth is particularly constrained ...
https://gsdrc.org/publications/inclusive-and-sustained-growth-in-iraq/
Entrepreneurship training programmes generally have a positive impact on existing and aspiring entrepreneurs, especially in terms of promoting better business practices. Programmes which provide ...
https://gsdrc.org/publications/the-impact-of-entrepreneurship-training-programmes/
This rapid review synthesises findings from rigorous academic, practitioner, and policy references, focusing on recent and seminal works with the aim of highlighting the impact of lifting sanctio...
https://gsdrc.org/publications/impact-of-lifting-economic-sanctions-on-poverty-and-growth/
Jordan has one of the smallest economies in the Middle East, and its lack of natural resources and water scarcity make it heavily dependent on foreign aid and foreign investment. Following the gl...
https://gsdrc.org/publications/economic-situation-in-jordan/
Key findings are as follows: Economic sanctions lead to an increase in the poverty gap and deprived sections of the population feel the most impact. For the most part sanctions fail to achieve th...
https://gsdrc.org/publications/impact-of-economic-sanctions-on-poverty-and-economic-growth/
In recent years, there has been an increasing realisation that political institutions and governance matter when explaining economic growth in developing countries. Here, political institutions r...
https://gsdrc.org/professional-dev/governance-politics-growth/
Historically, tax research has been dominated by two questions: how to enhance revenue collection in order to finance redistribution and public goods and services, and how to design tax policy to...
https://gsdrc.org/professional-dev/taxation-governance-and-growth/
State-business relations in low income countries are seen as a key determinant of inclusive growth and of structural transformation – shifts in economic structure to more productive activities ...