Global Development Network

About: Global Development Network is a other organization based out in New Delhi, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: International development & Counterfactual thinking. The organization has 15 authors who have published 36 publications receiving 1159 citations.

Burden of COPD among population above 30 years in India: protocol for a systematic review and proposed meta-analysis.

Abstract: Background: The Sustainable Development Goals and the National Health Policy of India aim to reduce premature mortality from noncommunicable diseases (NCD) by one-third in the next decade and by 25% by 2025, respectively. Among NCDs globally, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major contributor to death and disability. This underscores the need to understand the burden of COPD at the national level by synthesizing evidence and collating the state-wise COPD data to estimate the prevalence of COPD and to highlight the associated risk factors to inform policymakers. Method: The systematic literature search will be carried out in PubMed, Cochrane, Scopus, Web of Science, CINAHL, and ProQuest databases with restrictions for studies published between 2000 and 2020 and available in English. Cross-sectional or cohort studies conducted in and among the Indian population aged 30 years and above will be included. Case reports, randomized trials, meta-analysis, commentaries, and qualitative studies will be excluded from the review. Quality assessment of the included studies will be performed using New Castle Ottawa scale and adherence to reporting standards will be checked using STROBE checklist for Observational Cohort and Cross-Sectional Studies. Discussion: Prevalence of COPD in the population aged 30 years and above, diagnosed through spirometry and nonspirometry, will be compared and reported and a meta-analysis will be performed to obtain pooled prevalence rates of COPD and the risk factors associated with COPD.

Policy Studies, Policymaking, and Knowledge-driven Governance: A Review

Abstract: The academic and policy worlds have drifted apart since the early years of the Indian Republic. Can a new Public Policy field reconnect academia to policymaking? The genesis and evolution of Public Policy in the US holds important learning lessons. The raison d'etre of Public Policy, the academic discipline, is to aid and inform public policy, the process; sans state imprimatur, cross-institutional coordination and demand-scoping, discrete supply-driven initiatives are unlikely to have substantive impact. Public Policy has considerable scope in India, provided academia and government join hands to create a policy ecosystem for meeting the specific challenges of Indian governance.

Aid Effectiveness: Looking at the Aid-Social Capital-Growth Nexus

Abstract: The authors examine the impact of institutional quality and social capital on aid effectiveness. They find strong evidence that social capital and institutions enhance aid effectiveness. Moreover, once they account for the role of social capital and institutions, the impact of policies tends to disappear. These findings have important policy implications as they indicate that conditioning aid allocation on "good policies" may not lead to an optimal (or fair) allocation of aid, as countries with high social capital at the macrolevel could actually make good use of aid regardless of the quality of policy. This casts doubt on the conclusions in Burnside and Dollar (2000) and the policy lessons derived from their findings.

Reflections on the Euro Crisis

Abstract: Once eclipsed by, first, the dynamism of the US economy and then the formidable expansion of emerging countries, the Eurozone has come back to the fore of global preoccupations. It seems to matter again, but mainly through the harm that its current predicament can bring to the world economy. The Eurozone seems to cumulate four major crises in a potentially lethal combination: a crisis of current and potential growth, a crisis of government debt, a banking crisis, and a political crisis characterized by a patent lack of trust and shared vision.

The unending search for a new global monetary and financial architecture

Abstract: After the 2007–2009 economic deluge, the policy and theoretical case for a New Global Monetary and Financial Architecture gained momentum. This article analyzes some key features of the global crisis that severely limited the range of action of modern central banking. Earlier episodes of concerted institutional or implicit collective efforts to “anchor” a global system and the search for a stable international key currency in a cooperative atmosphere have, in general, failed. The incentives to reinvent a new Gold Standard or Bretton Woods are always inversely related to the international business cycle. Questions regarding the heterodox political open economy stance of the new emerging economies during the contemporaneous crisis are also discussed.