China's Future Performance and Development Challenges
China's rise as an economic powerhouse raises a number of questions that are the subject of lively debate. How did the country do it?
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Informal Employment and Development: Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion
At present, there is renewed interest in the informal economy worldwide. This renewed interest has rekindled some of the old debates about the phenomenon.
Impact of Private Sector Participation on access and quality of services: systematic review of evidence from the electricity, telecommunications and water supply sectors
Individual studies on the impact of such Private Sector Participation (PSP) have yielded mixed results. This study synthesises evidence on the impact of PSP on access and quality outcomes.
Culture, Politics, and Development
Whether in the domains of scholarship or practice, important advances have been made in recent years in our understanding of how culture, politics, and development interact.
Engaging with Fragile and Conflict-Affected States
The coherence and effectiveness of engagement with the world’s ‘fragile and conflict- affected states’—beyond ethical imperatives and geo-strategic considerations—turns on answers to two vexing questi
Learning Through Noticing: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment
We consider a model of technological learning under which people “learn through noticing”: they choose which input dimensions to attend to and subsequently learn about from available data.
The Centrally Planned Economy (1949-1984)
China's rapid rise to become the world's second largest economy has resulted in an unprecedented impact on the global system and an urgent need to understand the more about the newest economic superpo
This Is PFM
The acronym ‘PFM’ stands for Public Financial Management: But what is public financial management?
Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Economy
China's rapid rise to become the world's second largest economy has resulted in an unprecedented impact on the global system and an urgent need to understand the more about the newest economic superpo
Legal Reforms for the Self-Employed: Three Urban Cases
Four out of five urban workers in modern India are engaged in the informal economy, and half of these are self-employed This article examines what legal reforms are needed for home-based producers, st
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