Efforts to build state capability often take the form of commonly used, highly designed and engineered best practice solutions that have worked in many other places and that we suspect (and hope) will
Based on survey research and ethnographic interviews, we analyze struggles over housing and access to infrastructure in two low-income "unplanned settlements" in the National Capital Region of Delhi,
In this report Andrews takes a specific look at whether Sweden has contributed to increased realism in poor country reform of ’public finance management’ (PFM) over the last decades.
Rethinking economics, from the inside out. In the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession, economics seems anything but a science.
This book argues that Africa can feed itself in a generation and help contribute to global food security despite its history of persistent food shortages and the rising threat of climate change.
No matter which way you look at it, Chiapas is the most backward of any state in Mexico.
A review of "Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa: From the Margins to the Centre."
As shown in the 1930s by Hicks and Robinson the elasticity of substitution (s) is a key parameter that captures whether capital and labor are gross complements or substitutes.
To reduce poverty and food insecurity in Africa requires raising productivity in agriculture. Systematic use of fertilizer and hybrid seed is a pathway to increased productivity, but adoption of these
We study the economic effects of religious practices in the context of the observance of Ramadan fasting, one of the central tenets of Islam.
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