Anthony Barnes Atkinson - Oxford University Press, 2004 - Oxford, UK
As their Millennium Development Goals, world leaders have pledged by 2015 to halve the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger, to achieve universal primary education, to reduce child mortality, to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS, and to halve the number of people without safe drinking...
Anthony Barnes Atkinson - UNU-WIDER, 2004 - Helsinki, Finland
As a result of the Five Year Review of the World Summit for Social Development, the UN General Assembly in September 2000 adopted a resolution calling for 'a rigorous analysis of the advantages, disadvantages and other implications of proposals for developing new and innovative sources of...
Anthony Barnes Atkinson - UNU-WIDER, 2004 - Helsinki, Finland
by A. B. Atkinson
Mobilizing additional finance to meet the challenges of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is an urgent priority. Developing countries are themselves mobilizing resources to meet the MDG targets by 2015, but they will fall short without additional external flows. This...
Ernest Aryeetey - UNU-WIDER, 2004 - Helsinki, Finland
Efforts to realize the issue of development-focused Special Drawing Rights (SDR) by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have been on-going for many years. Recently, however, the campaign first gained a new momentum immediately after the Asian financial crises with the new liquidity problems of...
Andrés Solimano - UNU-WIDER, 2003 - Helsinki, Finland
Remittances, after foreign direct investment, are currently the most important source of external finance to developing countries. Remittances surpass foreign aid, and tend to be more stable than such volatile capital flows as portfolio investment and international bank credit. Remittances are...
Anthony Barnes Atkinson - UNU-WIDER, 2003 - Helsinki, Finland
In analysing proposals for new sources of development funding, there are several issues that arise across the board. What is the role of new sources in relation to existing overseas development assistance? Should we be seeking new sources that generate a double dividend? Can the key elements of a...
Robin Boadway - UNU-WIDER, 2003 - Helsinki, Finland
This paper considers lessons from the practice of fiscal federalism for guidance on new approaches to development finance. Despite the fact that inter-regional redistribution in a federation relies on a central government with strong fiscal powers, the form of that redistribution can be used as a...
Agnar Sandmo - UNU-WIDER, 2003 - Helsinki, Finland
This paper considers the role of global environmental taxes both as instruments for improving the global environment and as a source of revenue for funding economic development. It reviews the general case for environmental taxes and the particular issues that arise for the adoption of such taxes...
John Micklewright, Anna Wright - UNU-WIDER, 2003 - Helsinki, Finland
Charitable donations by private individuals and firms can help fund the Millennium Development Goals. What are the prospects for increasing donations for international development, whether from small-scale donors, the super-rich (as in the recent gifts by Bill Gates and Ted Turner), or the...
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