Subject(s): Economic development -- Financial institutions -- International agencies. -- Economic assistance. -- Poor countries :institutional explanations for underdevelopment, support development -- Market- supportive institutions : countries fail to develop market supportive institutions -- Can foreign aid promotion development : Foreign aid community in burgeooning, promoting growth or improving institutions, institutional reforms, foreign aid -- Measuring institutions and institutional change : Democracy, money for good institutions, problem with aid agency ratings- world bank's CPIA -- Institutions and reform of urban water system : Water and sanitation, how water and sanitation systems works in real world, water reforms, institutional framework for studying water system reform, water and sanitation reforms in Buenos Aires and Santiago -- Role of scholars and scholarship in economic development, scholars and European enlightenment, marketplace for scholars in developed and underdeveloped countries, scholars influence change in policies, paradigms and institutions