Productive Ecosystems and the arrow of development
Economic growth is associated with the diversification of economic activities, which can be observed via the evolution of product export baskets.
Research
Review of A Business History Of India: Enterprise and the Emergence of Capitalism from 1700
This wide-ranging and illuminating book links the history of business in India to broader global and national trends across three centuries.
Humility in the Anthropocene
The last 50 years have witnessed a set of changes in the scale of humankind’s ecological imagination toward ‘thinking globally’.
Covid-19 and taxes: policies for the post-pandemic recovery
• The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented strain on public finances across developing countries.
Learning From Deregulation: The Asymmetric Impact of Lockdown and Reopening on Risky Behavior During COVID-19
During the COVID-19 pandemic, states issued and then rescinded stay-at-home orders that restricted mobility.
America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity
The Cold War dominated world affairs during the half century following World War II.
Globalization: What's New? What's Not? (and so What?)
More than two decades before "globalization" became a buzzword, Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye shed new light on transnational relations and the intensification of cross-border interactions in their se
The US-China Relationship After Coronavirus: Clues from History
What will be the consequences of the pandemic, and what will a post-COVID world order look like?
When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Men
We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young m
Informality and Inequality: In a Globalized and Urbanized World
The 2019 Human Development Report (HDR) will focus on inequality in order to highlight and address the fact that today’s world is deeply unequal and unfair, despite recent progress.
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