New Models of Public Leadership
Book abstract: The anthology covers a wide range of topics, offering a third sector perspective on the general leadership questions essential to any manager--principles and practices of leadership, or
Research
Estimation of De Facto Flexibility Parameter and Basket Weights in Evolving Exchange Rate Regimes
A new technique for estimating countries’ de facto exchange rate regimes synthesizes two approaches.
Labor Supply Responses to Marginal Social Security Benefits: Evidence from Discontinuities
A key question for Social Security reform is whether workers respond to the link on the margin between the Social Security taxes they pay and the Social Security benefits they will receive.
Confidence in the United Nations: Cosmopolitan and Nationalistic Attitudes
The Natural Resource Curse
Restoring Solvency
It is by now a cliché to observe that Barack Obama took office facing the greatest challenge of any United States president since Franklin Roosevelt.
The Role of Theory in Ethnographic Research
Scholars, including urban poverty researchers, have not seriously debated the important issues that Loïc Wacquant raised in his controversial review of books by Elijah Anderson, Mitchell Duneier, and
Law and The Financial System: Securitization and Asset Backed Securities
Law and the Financial System: Securitization and Asset Backed Securities provides students and practitioners with a comprehensive source of materials and references for understanding the process and i
The Wealth of Cities: Agglomeration Economies and Spatial Equilibrium in the United States
Empirical research on cities starts with a spatial equilibrium condition: workers and firms are assumed to be indifferent across space.
Toward Closing the Evaluation Gap: Lessons Learned from Three Recent Evaluations of Social Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean
Despite recent growing demand from funders and governments, rigorous impact evaluations in Latin America and the Caribbean remain the exception rather than the rule.
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