Global Poverty Amid Global Plenty: Getting Globalization Right
The proximate cause of poverty is low productivity.
Research
Slow Pass-through Around the World: A New Import for Developing Countries?
Developing countries traditionally experience pass-through of exchange rate changes that is greater and more rapid than high-income countries experience.
The Disgust-Promotes-Disposal Effect
Individuals tend toward status quo bias: preferring existing options over new ones.
Product Price Targeting -- A New Improved Way of Inflation Targeting
Why was the Arab World Poised for Revolution? Schooling, Economic Opportunities, and the Arab Spring
What underlying long-term conditions set the stage for the Arab Spring?
A New Public Rhetoric for the Occupy Movement
Leading social analysts Ruth Milkman, Mohammed A. Bamyeh, Benjamin Barber, William Julius Wilson, Dana Williams, and Deborah B.
A Community of Abundance
The article presents a speech by development economist Lant Pritchett delivered in the Belmont First Ward in Belmont, Massachusetts on May 8, 2011.
Comparing Cross-border Information Flows and their Effects
Book abstract: The Handbook of Comparative Communication Research aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of comparative communication research.
Constrained Compliance: Solving the Puzzle of MTO’s Lease-Up Rates and Why Mobility Matters
The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) for Fair Housing demonstration provided an opportunity for low-income renters to move to low-poverty neighborhoods.
Could Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Head the World Bank? Yes, If Five Things Happen
The candidacy of an African woman, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to lead the World Bank represents a historic opportunity to strengthen the organisation in its mission to attack global poverty.
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