Development economics and emerging markets

Emerging-market crises come from the structure of national balance sheets.

Rich countries urge poor ones to adopt the opposite of the policies they once used.

Why about sixty poor countries are stuck, caught in traps such as conflict.

Norway is the counterexample the whole volume is arranged around.

By the man who coined the term 'emerging markets'; the case for world-class EM operating companies.

Polemical, but the case for bond-market financing over aid is argued in investor terms.

Sceptical audit of what microfinance evidence actually supports.

The argument that the risk is mispriced in the developed world, not the emerging one.

Nations prosper under inclusive institutions and stagnate under extractive ones.

How $27 lent to 42 villagers grew into Grameen Bank and microcredit.

The poor hold assets but lack the property records that turn them into capital.

Why foreign aid, investment and other remedies failed to make tropical nations rich.

How companies can serve the world's poor profitably and reduce poverty in doing so.

Sector-level explanation of why productivity differs so much between countries

The theory behind microfinance methods such as group lending, and their effects.

Year-long financial diaries of poor households show how they manage money.

A memoir of moving from international banking to founding Acumen, an impact investor.

Why emerging economies will not all keep converging, and tests for which can grow.

Ghana's 2010 GDP rebasing is the central case; read before trusting any African macro series.

Living standards rise through learning, and how policy can make economies learn.

Ten rules for judging whether a country's economy will rise or fall.

Why liberty is hard to win and keep, and how it can survive new threats.

Jeffrey Sachs's ambitious quest to end global poverty, followed on the ground.