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Kenya: Why Kenya Has to Adopt Biotechnology in Farming

I am very proud to receive an honorary degree from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT).

Incentives Work: Getting Teachers to Come to School

We use a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and increase learning in India.

The Informal Economy in Comparative Perspective

Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

This paper reports an experiment in 640 Indonesian villages on three approaches to target the poor: proxy means tests (PMT), where assets are used to predict consumption; community targeting, where vi

The Dynamics of Nestedness Predicts the Evolution of Industrial Ecosystems

Decades of research in ecology have shown that nestedness is a ubiquitous characteristic of both, biological and economic ecosystems. The dynamics of nestedness, however, have rarely been observed.

Introduction to Issue on Malnutrition

In poor countries, over a quarter of children under the age of five years are malnourished.

The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey of Diagnoses and Some Prescriptions

Countries with oil, mineral or other natural resource wealth, on average, have failed to show better economic performance than those without, often because of undesirable side effects.

Why was the Arab World Poised for Revolution? Schooling, Economic Opportunities, and the Arab Spring

What underlying long-term conditions set the stage for the Arab Spring?

Global Poverty Amid Global Plenty: Getting Globalization Right

The proximate cause of poverty is low productivity.

Could Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Head the World Bank? Yes, If Five Things Happen

The candidacy of an African woman, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to lead the World Bank represents a historic opportunity to strengthen the organisation in its mission to attack global poverty.