Subject(s): World bank -- Economic growth -- Governance -- Poverty -- Economic assistance -- Economic development. P -- Public administration -- Rationale of overseas development assistance -- institutions, governance and growth, economic and social policies, empirical evidence on governance, East Asian experience, new paradigms for development -- nature and content of aid, aid and growth, investment and consumption, content of aid, technical assistance, NGOs -- Role of donors and recipient responses, world bank and international monetary fund -- Inequalities, economic growth and poverty reduction, selectivity and sovereignty -- New strategies for aid and development, governance and political reform initiatives, bilateral donors, private investment, development compact