Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have spread worldwide, and are designed to promote comprehensive human capital investments in children, starting from encouraging pre-natal and maternal care a
I distinguish between political and economic populism. Both are averse to agencies of restraint, or, equivalently, delegation to technocrats or external rules.
ne reason the Great Recession was, alas, great was the quantity of household debt accumulated in the lead-up to the financial crisis.
What monetary regime should commodity-exporting developing countries adopt?
Countries that specialize in commodities have in recent years been hit by high volatility in world prices for their exports.
Decades of programmatic experimentation by development NGOs combined with the latest empirical techniques for estimating program impact have shown that a well-designed, well-implemented, multi-faceted
As trade agreements have evolved and gone beyond import tariffs and quotas into regulatory rules and harmonization, they have become more difficult to fit into received economic theory.
Redistribution programs in developing countries often “leak” because local officials do not implement programs as the central government intends. We study one approach to reducing leakage.
In rich and poor countries alike, a core challenge is building the state’s capability for policy implementation.
The Commission on Investing in Health (CIH), an international group of 25 economists and global health experts, published its Global Health 2035 report in The Lancet in December 2013.
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