The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey
It is striking how often countries with oil or other natural resource wealth have failed to grow more rapidly than those without. This is the phenomenon known as the Natural Resource Curse.
Research
Handbook of Development Economics, 5: Pages 4039-5061
The Self-Employed Women’s Association
The Policy Irrelevance of the Economics of Education: Is 'Normative as Positive' Useless, or Worse?
What Works in Development?
The New Development Economics: We Shall Experiment, but How Shall We Learn?
What Works in Development?
The Natural Resource Curse
Funding Economic Development: A Comparative Study of Financial Sector Reform in Vietnam and China
Given the importance of financial sector development for sustained economic growth, especially in the context of Vietnam’s own performance since embarking the Ð?i M?i economic reforms twenty years ago
Evolution of Models to Support Community and Policy Action with Science: Balancing Pastoral Livelihoods and Wildlife Conservation in Savannas of East Africa
We developed a “continual engagement” model to better integrate knowledge from policy makers, communities, and researchers with the goal of promoting more effective action to balance poverty alleviati
Certification Strategies, Industrial Development and a Global Market for Biofuels
A disproportionately large amount of the world's agronomic potential for the production of bioethanol is concentrated in a subset of developing countries.
The Global Gender Gap Report
Iceland (1) has claimed the top spot of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2009 from Norway (3) which slipped to third position behind Finland (2).
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