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Achilles’ Heel of Social Policy

The clamour for the right to social pensions is another attempt to deal with the Indian state’s inability to provide adequate social protection to its poorest citizens through targeted programmes.

Teachers Unions Have a Popularity Problem

However Wisconsin's recall election turns out on Tuesday, teachers unions already appear to be losing a larger political fight—in public opinion.

Look Beyond Interest Rates to Get Out of the Gloom

With the past week’s dismal US jobs data, signs of increasing financial strain in Europe and discouraging news from China, the proposition that the global economy is returning to a path of healthy gro

Incentives Work: Getting Teachers to Come to School

We use a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and increase learning in India.

The Informal Economy in Comparative Perspective

The Role of Emotions in Foreign Policy Decision Making

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Jobs for the Boys

Patronage systems in the public service are universally reviled as undemocratic and corrupt.

From Black Revolution to 'Radical Humanism': Malcolm X Between Biography and International History

This article both reviews Manning Marable’s Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention and reflects more broadly upon Malcolm X’s political trajectory and human rights activism in the context of American, Afric

Operation Enduring Freedom—Philippines: Civilian Harm and the Indirect Approach

At the request of the SOCOM Commander, the study authors deployed to the Philippines to examine Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines (OEF-P). Since 2002, U.S.