Shantayanan Devarajan

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors derive conditions under which a change in the composition of expenditure leads to a higher steady-state growth rate of the economy and show that an increase in the share of current expenditure has positive and statistically significant growth effects.

TL;DR: The World Development Report (WDR) 2004 warns that broad improvements in human welfare will not occur unless poor people receive wider access to affordable, better quality services in health, education, water, sanitation, and electricity as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarized the findings from case studies that investigate whether, when, and how foreign aid has affected economic policy in Africa, concluding that policy formation is primarily driven by domestic political economy.

TL;DR: In this paper, a framework for evaluating the benefits and costs, in terms of service delivery, of different approaches to decentralization, based on relationships of accountability between different actors in the delivery chain is provided.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that these estimates are based on an underlying assumption that the main effect of increased mortality is to relieve pressure on existing land and physical capital so that output per head is little affected, and that with a more plausible view of how the economy functions over the long run, the economic costs of AIDS are almost certain to be much higher.