This paper describes a weekly economic index (WEI) developed to track the rapid economic developments associated with the onset of and policy response to the novel coronavirus in the United States.
This paper synthesizes what economists have learned about human capital since Becker (1962) into four stylized facts.
o our knowledge there has been little research to date on the relationship between international development and popular music—for example, on the ways in which familiar development themes are rendere
The notion of development influences and is influenced by all aspects of human life.
With elevated global inflation likely to persist for some time, the prospect of competitive exchange-rate appreciations is looming larger.
China's lending boom to developing countries is morphing into defaults and debt distress.
Highlights • Fighting a pandemic in poor countries may involve not just a trade-off between lives and livelihoods, but an even more horrible trade-off between lives lost due to the pandemic and lives
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, developing countries appeared to be generally on a converging path with income levels in the wealthiest countries.
Rising real food prices are an exceptionally regressive shock—both within countries as well as across them.
COVID-19 deepened and accelerated a troubling trend of economic backsliding that had appeared around half a decade earlier. We call this the Reversal Problem.
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