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China's Land System: Past, Present, and Future

Lincoln Institute’s third annual land policy conference explores the connections between property rights and land policies in developed and developing country contexts.

An Outsider’s View of China’s Actual and Potential Stimulus Plans

In an earlier analysis of possible stimulus plans for the United States, Lawrence Summers suggested that the key criteria for any stimulus plan should be that it would be “timely, targeted, and tempor

Informal Sector and Social Policy: Compendium of Personal and Technical Reflections. Cornell-SEWA-WIEGO Exposure and Dialogue Program

Moving Out of Poverty, Volume 2: Success from the Bottom Up

Population and Development Review is essential reading to keep abreast of population studies, research on the interrelationships between population and socioeconomic change, and related thinking on pu

What Would Galbraith Say?

A Centered Index of Spatial Concentration: Axiomatic Approach with an Application to Population and Capital Cities

We construct an axiomatic index of spatial concentration around a center or capital point of interest, a concept with wide applicability from urban economics, economic geography and trade, to politica

The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers Across the US Border

We estimate the “place premium”—the wage gain that accrues to foreign workers who arrive to work in the United States.

Linking Knowledge with Action Using Community Facilitators to Span Boundaries: Lessons from East Africa

Advances of science may take much longer to translate into helpful societal actions without deliberate linkages among policy makers, practitioners, and scientists and an integration of their knowledge

In Search of the Chains that Hold Brazil Back

Informality in South Asia: A Review

This paper seeks to explore the diversity of the informal economy across five countries in South Asia: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.