International Student Flows from Developing Countries: Do Donors Have an Impact?

Capital Flows To Developing Countries: Does The Emperor Have Clothes?

This paper begins by examining the pattern of capital flows first to low-income countries, and then to emerging economies. In both cases, we see a dramatic collapse in the last several years. The evolving determinants of these trends in FDI flows (the principal category of private flows to low-income countries) and other capital flows are analysed. The behaviour of flows to emerging economies h...

Do Differences in Schools ' Instruction Time Explain International Achievement Gaps ? Evidence from Developed and Developing Countries

The time that children spend in school varies across countries. Do these differences explain international gaps in pupils’ academic achievements? In this paper, I estimate the effects of instructional time on students’ achievement using PISA 2006 data, which includes data samples from over 50 countries. I find that instructional time has a positive and significant effect on test scores, and tha...

Training nephrologists from developing countries: does it have a positive impact?

In the past 25 years the International Society of Nephrology has sponsored 545 physicians from 83 developing countries to undertake nephrology training in renal units in the developed world. Data collected biennially from past fellows have demonstrated a very positive impact of the program on individual trainees and their home institutions. Many of the trainees have gone on to leadership positi...

What impact do prescription drug charges have on efficiency and equity? Evidence from high-income countries

As pharmaceutical expenditure continues to rise, third-party payers in most high-income countries have increasingly shifted the burden of payment for prescription drugs to patients. A large body of literature has examined the relationship between prescription charges and outcomes such as expenditure, use, and health, but few reviews explicitly link cost sharing for prescription drugs to efficie...

Do College Student Surveys Have Any Validity?