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Development Finance; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Issues and Challenges: An Assessment of the Empirical Evidence; 1.3 Government Intervention and Financial Sector Development; 1.4 Overseas Aid as an Instrument of Development Finance; 1.5 Migrant Remittances and Beyond: The Development Implications of Human Capital Mobility and Accompanying Financial Flows; 1.6 Multinational Enterprises and Economic Development in Host Countries: What We Know and What We Don't Know
1.7 The Impact of Microfinance on Poverty Alleviation: Making Sense of the Evidence1.8 The Stock Market Development and Economic Growth Puzzle: Empirical Evidence from Africa; References; 2 Issues and Challenges: An Assessment of the Empirical Evidence; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Evidence from Impact of Finance upon Economic Growth; 2.3 Misallocation; 2.3.1 Removal of Financial Frictions: The Case of Microcredit; 2.4 The Unbanked: The Role of Legal Titles and the Role of Financial Illiteracy; 2.4.1 The Role of Legal Titles; 2.4.2 Financial Literacy; 2.5 Conclusions; References
3 Government Intervention and Financial Sector Development3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Governments Should Intervene in the Financial Sector; 3.2.1 Historical Evidence on Government Intervention; 3.2.2 Role of Development Banks; 3.2.3 Role of Government in Financial Regulation; 3.3 Government Should Not Intervene; 3.4 Conditional Interventions; 3.5 Conclusion; References; 4 Overseas Aid as an Instrument of Development Finance; 4.1 Background to the Aid Debate; 4.1.1 Introduction; 4.1.2 The Economics and Politics of Aid (1945-1970s); 4.1.3 Analytical Frameworks for Understanding Aid Effectiveness
4.2 Aid, Donor Pressure and Recipient Response in the Open Economy (1980
Early 2000s)4.2.1 Liberalisation and the 'Washington Consensus'; 4.2.2 The Rise of Human Capital and the 'New Poverty Agenda' as Development Solutions; 4.2.3 New Regression Results at the Millennium, and Their Interpretation; 4.3 Aid in the Twenty-First Century: Hopes Dashed and Regained; 4.4 Conclusions; References; 5 Migrant Remittances and Beyond: The Development Implications of Human Capital Mobility and Accompanying Financial Flows; 5.1 Introduction
5.2 The Economics of Labour Mobility and Related Cross-Border Financial Flows5.3 The Economics of Migrant Selectivity, Brain Drain and Brain Gain; 5.4 The Economics of Migrant Remittances; 5.5 Putting It All Together and Moving Forward; 5.5.1 Brain Drain, Brain Gain and the Intervening Effect of Remittances; 5.5.2 The Special Case of Refugees, Displaced People and Remittances; 5.6 Conclusion; References; 6 Multinational Enterprises and Economic Development in Host Countries: What We Know and What We Don't Know; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The Importance of FDI to Developing Countries
1.7 The Impact of Microfinance on Poverty Alleviation: Making Sense of the Evidence1.8 The Stock Market Development and Economic Growth Puzzle: Empirical Evidence from Africa; References; 2 Issues and Challenges: An Assessment of the Empirical Evidence; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Evidence from Impact of Finance upon Economic Growth; 2.3 Misallocation; 2.3.1 Removal of Financial Frictions: The Case of Microcredit; 2.4 The Unbanked: The Role of Legal Titles and the Role of Financial Illiteracy; 2.4.1 The Role of Legal Titles; 2.4.2 Financial Literacy; 2.5 Conclusions; References
3 Government Intervention and Financial Sector Development3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Governments Should Intervene in the Financial Sector; 3.2.1 Historical Evidence on Government Intervention; 3.2.2 Role of Development Banks; 3.2.3 Role of Government in Financial Regulation; 3.3 Government Should Not Intervene; 3.4 Conditional Interventions; 3.5 Conclusion; References; 4 Overseas Aid as an Instrument of Development Finance; 4.1 Background to the Aid Debate; 4.1.1 Introduction; 4.1.2 The Economics and Politics of Aid (1945-1970s); 4.1.3 Analytical Frameworks for Understanding Aid Effectiveness
4.2 Aid, Donor Pressure and Recipient Response in the Open Economy (1980
Early 2000s)4.2.1 Liberalisation and the 'Washington Consensus'; 4.2.2 The Rise of Human Capital and the 'New Poverty Agenda' as Development Solutions; 4.2.3 New Regression Results at the Millennium, and Their Interpretation; 4.3 Aid in the Twenty-First Century: Hopes Dashed and Regained; 4.4 Conclusions; References; 5 Migrant Remittances and Beyond: The Development Implications of Human Capital Mobility and Accompanying Financial Flows; 5.1 Introduction
5.2 The Economics of Labour Mobility and Related Cross-Border Financial Flows5.3 The Economics of Migrant Selectivity, Brain Drain and Brain Gain; 5.4 The Economics of Migrant Remittances; 5.5 Putting It All Together and Moving Forward; 5.5.1 Brain Drain, Brain Gain and the Intervening Effect of Remittances; 5.5.2 The Special Case of Refugees, Displaced People and Remittances; 5.6 Conclusion; References; 6 Multinational Enterprises and Economic Development in Host Countries: What We Know and What We Don't Know; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The Importance of FDI to Developing Countries