The use of natural resource revenues for achievement of development has been a challenging issue for resource abundant countries. These challenges stem from the fact that incomes from natural resources are non-durable, unpredictable and uncertain. Different countries have pursued various approaches and tools for managing these revenues to avoid economic fluctuations. The international organizat...

Although public child welfare has historically been a major employer of professional social workers, within the last twenty years MSW graduates have shunned public social services for the private sector. Using Title IV-E funds, universities have responded to this shortage by providing financial and educational incentives for graduate social work students to work with the diverse and complex cas...

The comment by Lars Svensson (2006) is an important contribution to the debate on the welfare effects of public information. Morris and Shin (2002) had shown that the provision of more precise public information can, in principle, be detrimental to welfare, but Svensson’s note opens the debate on the quantitative significance of the result. Svensson (2006) makes two observations. First, the res...