We assemble a dataset of the universe of economics and business journal articles published since 1980 to assess differences in the levels and trends of the global distribution of…
April 6, 2025, Opinion: "From the White House Rose Garden, President Trump called it “Liberation Day” for the United States, but in garment factories in Hanoi and Phnom Penh, the…
Place-based policy in the United States comprises a wide range of government programs that are spread across federal, state, and local agencies and that rely on public, private,…
January 21, 2025, Video: "As a revival of economic nationalism and industrial policy reshapes the world, governments are racing to shore up their readiness to attract investment…
Manufacturing generates very little employment in the developing world. Urban jobs are predominantly informal, unproductive, and in services. It seems unlikely that manufacturing…
The future of developing countries lies in services. Enhancing productivity in labor-absorbing services in particular must be an essential priority, for reasons of both growth and…
The U.S.-China conflict is threatening continued global economic prosperity and this has inspired a variety of predictions and prescriptions on the future global order. This paper…
December 8, 2023, Opinion: "Manufacturing industries are no longer the labor-absorbing sectors they used to be, and that is a big problem for developed and developing economies…
This is a bold and intriguing paper. It offers a new explanation for poverty reduction (or lack thereof) and interesting new empirical measures of global market access and the…
