This contribution surveys significant contributions technological innovations have made to humans' economic and material welfare, the seminal analysis made by noted economists, and the supportive poli
The comparative advantage of a location shapes its industrial structure.
Is there a tradeoff between environmental sustainability and economic development? If there is a place where that question can be approximated, that is Loreto.
We revisit the well-known fact that richer countries tend to produce a larger variety of goods and analyze economic development through (export) diversifcation.
Public policy work is hard, especially when one works in developing countries. It is even difficult to define what success looks like, and thus how to manage towards success.
We develop a Bayesian latent factor model of the joint long-run evolution of GDP per capita for 113 countries over the 118 years from 1900 to 2017.
Social protection programs have become increasingly widespread in low- and middle-income countries, with their own distinct characteristics to match the environments in which they are operating.
This special issue is a reminder that the world lost a truly remarkable scholar when Martin Weitzman sadly passed away in 2019.
This paper estimates the costs of sovereign defaults to a broader extent than has been done in the literature.
CHINA’S PRIVATE SECTOR is often summed up with a combination of four numbers: 60/70/80/90.
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