In the twenty-first century the balance of world economic growth has shifted from the G7 industrialized economies, led by Europe, Japan, and the United States, to the emerging economies of Asia, espec
This paper presents findings from a study on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on informal workers in 11 cities across 5 regions of the world (Asia, Africa, Latin America, North America and Eastern Eu
The literature on wage gaps between Chiapas and the rest of Mexico revolves around individual factors, such as education and ethnicity.
US media often report that a particular policy is generally considered bad or unpopular, when in reality it seeks to achieve a reasonable trade-off between competing forces or goals.
The experience of development, as well as understandings of and responses to it, are uniquely rendered through popular culture generally, and popular music in particular.
The US economy lost a net of 8 million jobs between February 2020 and April 2021.
This chapter develops a novel approach to predict post-money valuation of startups across various regions and sectors, as well as their probabilities of success.
We studied the geography as well as the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of 1.7 million members of the global Colombian diaspora (34% of the total estimated Colombian diaspora) using cen
Times of strain often lead to explosions of religiosity, as people turn to faith as a balm against misfortune.
Today, freely floating exchange rates suit most large countries better than the late economists Richard Cooper, Robert Mundell, and John Williamson thought.
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