This interdisciplinary volume addresses the special challenges that middle-income countries confront from both a theoretical and a practical perspective.

In 1960, there were 101 middle-income countries. By 2008, only thirteen of these had become high-income countries. Why do so many middle-income countries fail t

Why are carefully designed, sensible policies too often not adopted or implemented? When they are, why do they often fail to generate development outcomes such

The 2011 WDR on Conflict, Security and Development underlines the devastating impact of persistent conflict on a country or region's development prospects - not

This comprehensive volume brings together the major essays in the subject of law and development. The first sections concerns the relationship between legal sys