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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.

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

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?

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

The Urban Informal Economy: Enhanced Knowledge, Appropriate Policies and Effective Organization

Why Distributed End Users Often Limit Public Financial Management Reform Success

Externally supported Public Financial Management (PFM) reforms often have limited success in developing countries.

Reforming China's Monopolies

This working paper focuses on an aspect of governance that is crucial to the next phase of China’s development: reducing state monopolies in order to enhance economic efficiency and promote more equit