Author/Editor: Giorgia Albertin, Boriana Yontcheva, Dan Devlin, Hilary Devine, Marc Gerard, Sebastian Beer, Irena Jankulov Suljagic, Vimal V Thakoor.

Release Date:September, 2021

This paper aims to contribute to the international policy debate around profit shifting, tax avoidance and SSA's revenue mobilization efforts in three ways. First, it examines the importance of more...

Author/Editor: Adrian Alter, Boriana Yontcheva.

Release Date:November, 2015

This paper examines financial inclusion and development in the CEMAC. We explore the
 level of financial inclusion in the CEMAC through a benchmarking exercise.We construct
 a more...

Author/Editor: Boriana Yontcheva, Peter Isard, Leslie Lipschitz, Alex Mourmouras.

Release Date:April, 2006

Relatively slow progress toward meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by their 2015 target date has added urgency to the challenge of reducing global poverty. The authors of this new more...

Author/Editor: Gilles Nancy, Boriana Yontcheva.

Release Date:February, 2006

This paper studies the aid allocation of European nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Once population is controlled for, poverty consistently appears as the main worldwide determinant of NGO aid more...

Author/Editor: Boriana Yontcheva, Nadia Masud.

Release Date:May, 2005

This paper assesses the effectiveness of foreign aid in reducing poverty through its impact on human development indicators. We use a dataset of both bilateral aid and NGO aid flows. Our results show more...

Author/Editor: Boriana Yontcheva.

Release Date:July, 2003

This paper presents a dynamic game of strategic delegation between a principal and an agent. The principal can choose between two organizational designs: a traditional hierarchy where she retains more...