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Despite recent growing demand from funders and governments, rigorous impact evaluations in Latin America and the Caribbean remain the…
Many developing countries have a history of highly centralized governments. Since the late 1980s, a large number of these governments have…
Empirical research on cities starts with a spatial equilibrium condition: workers and firms are assumed to be indifferent across space.…
It is by now a cliché to observe that Barack Obama took office facing the greatest challenge of any United States president since Franklin…
President Obama faces a classic diplomatic challenge in South Asia - how to balance a short-term need for progress in Afghanistan and…
Recent developments, especially the devastating economic crisis, have highlighted the world’s growing interdependence and drawn attention…
This paper introduces a family of multi-period poverty measures
derived from commonly used static poverty measures. Our measures
trade-off…
Despite the high level of funding and policy interest in prisoner
reentry, there is still little rigorous scientific evidence to guide…
Featuring all 23 policy proposals and 30 response essays presented at the American Society of Criminology's 2009 annual meeting,…