Documenting Social and Economic Transformation in Myanmar’s Rural Communities
Myanmar has undergone significant reforms in recent years.
Research
A Tough Call: Understanding Barriers to and Impacts of Women’s Mobile Phone Adoption in India
Today in India, 67% percent of men own mobile phones, but only 33% percent of women do.
New Technologies, Global Value Chains, and the Developing Economies
Do new technologies present an opportunity or a threat to developing economies?
Universal Basic Incomes vs. Targeted Transfers: Anti-Poverty Programs in Developing Countries
Developing country governments are increasingly implementing cash assistance programs to combat poverty and inequality.
GDP as a Measure of Economic Well-Being
The sense that recent technological advances have yielded considerable benefits for everyday life, as well as disappointment over measured productivity and output growth in recent years, have spurred
Alternative Approaches to Reforming the Public Sector: East Asian Experiences in Public Financial Management and Public Sector Reform
Introduces eight country cases from East Asia to explore how recent reforms have been undertaken in public financial management (PFM) and the public sector more broadly.
Lease Splitting and Dirty Entrants: The Unintended Deforestation Consequences of India’s Environmental Clearance Process Reform
Mining industries form a significant share of the industrial landscape of many poor countries.
Upping the Ante: The Equilibrium Effects of Unconditional Grants to Private Schools
We test for financial constraints as a market failure in education in a low-income country by experimentally allocating unconditional cash grants to either one (L) or to all (H) private schools in a v
Place-Specific Determinants of Income Gaps: New Sub-National Evidence from Chiapas, Mexico
The literature on income gaps between Chiapas and the rest of Mexico revolves around individual factors, such as education and ethnicity.
The Complex Task of Evaluating China’s Economic Reforms
Scholars, practitioners and many others regularly comment on the pace of China’s economic reforms, but there is no consensus on what constitutes slow or fast, partial or complete economic reform, eith
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