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Enhancing Public Health Outcomes in Developing Countries: From Good Policies and Best Practices to Better Implementation

In rich and poor countries alike, a core challenge is building the state’s capability for policy implementation.

How to Convene an International Health or Development Commission: Ten Key Steps

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.

Estimating the Impact of Women’s Education on Fertility, Child Mortality, and Empowerment When Schooling Ain’t Learning

We use literacy data available in the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for 129 survey rounds, across 54 countries, to estimate the impact of female basic education–which we define as completing si

The South African Informal Sector in International Comparative Perspective: Theories, Data and Policies

While the informal sector is the ‘forgotten’ sector in many ways, it provides livelihoods, employment and income for about 2.5 million workers and business owners.

Culture, Politics and Development

Exponential Innovation and Human Rights: Implications for Science and Technology Diplomacy

The international community has historically maintained hope that advances in science and technology offer humanity a wide range of options for improving its well-being.

Cities on a Hill?

For many Americans, cities have become a beacon of hope. They are widely recognized as engines of the U.S. economy and laboratories of policy innovation and democratic deepening.

African Regional Economic Integration: The Emergence, Evolution, and Impact of Institutional Innovation

The power of Pan-Africanism as a guiding vision for the continent’s development is widely studied, mostly as an aspirational phenomenon.

Welcome Home in a Crisis: Effects of Return Migration on the Non-Migrants' Wages and Employment

The recent economic depression in Greece hit the population of Albanian migrants in Greece particularly hard, spurring a wave of return migration that increased the Albanian labor force by 5% in less

Is the Chinese Economy Headed for a Hard Landing