How to Quench the American West’s Thirst
Farmers in the western United States argue that without access to relatively affordable water for cultivating feed-related crops such as alfalfa, the cost of beef and dairy products would increase.
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The Impact of Return Migration on Employment and Wages in Mexican Cities
How does return migration from the US to Mexico affect local workers? Return migrants increase the local labor supply, potentially hurting local workers.
Debt Restructuring for Commodity Exporters
Even if they manage to convince their creditors to restructure their debts, commodity-exporting debtor countries are still vulnerable to sudden price fluctuations.
Housing in Wyoming: Constraints and Solutions
Quantitative evidence supports the contention that Wyoming’s housing market is constrained, to a greater degree than many other parts of the US.
Policy Recommendations for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth in the Peruvian Amazonia
Loreto is a place full of contrasts. Although it is the largest department in Peru, it is one of the least populated in the country.
On Productivism
We are today in the midst of a transition away from what has come to be called “neoliberalism,” with much uncertainty about what will replace it.
Fifty Years of Floating Currencies
The half-century since the official demise of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates has shown the benefits of what replaced it.
Social Sustainability in Development: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century
All development is about people: the transformative process to equip, link, and enable groups of people to drive change and create something new to benefit society.
Multidimensional Human Capital and the Wage Structure
This paper reviews and synthesizes the literature on the macroeconomic implications of human capital theory.
What works in workforce development and how can it work better?
For the past two years, a bipartisan group of researchers and analysts convened by the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institution, and the Harvard Kennedy School’s Project on Workforce h
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