Jordan: The Elements of a Growth Strategy
In the decade 1999-2009, Jordan experienced an impressive growth acceleration, tripling its exports and increasing income per capita by 38%.
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Private Outsourcing and Competition: Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia
We explore the impact of allowing for outsourcing service delivery to the private sector within Indonesia’s largest targeted transfer program.
How funding from multilateral agencies aids road projects
Agencies, such as the World Bank, bring development to those regions that private investors consider risky
The Curious Case of the Missing Defaults
In a recent paper on the long coincident behavior of international capital flows, commodity prices, and interest rates in global financial centers, Reinhart, Reinhart, and Trebesch (2016 and 2017) dis
The Euro’s First 20 Years
According to public opinion polls, 20 years after its introduction, the euro is highly popular, with 64% of eurozone citizens supporting the common currency.
Making Moves Matter: Experimental Evidence on Incentivizing Bureaucrats through Performance-Based Postings
Bureaucracies often post staff to better or worse locations, ostensibly to provide incentives.
Realizing the Potential of PPPs to Advance Asia's Infrastructure Development
This publication shows how public–private partnerships (PPPS) can be effective to meet Asia’s growing infrastructure needs. It shows how governments and their development partners can use PPPs to pro
Trade Strategy, Development, and the Future of the Global Trade Regime
Meeting Globalization’s Challenges draws on new research to examine the channels through which international trade and the diffusion of technology have enhanced the wealth of nations while also produc
Self-Selection of Emigrants: Theory and Evidence on Stochastic Dominance in Observable and Unobservable Characteristics
The Roy model has more precise predictions about the self-selection of migrants than previously realised.
An Indian Gilded Age? Continuity and Change in the Political Economy of India’s Development
In 1984, Pranab Bardhan published his classic work The Political Economy of Development in India (PEDI).
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