What Works in Development? brings together leading experts to address one of the most basic yet vexing issues in development: what do we…
Iceland (1) has claimed the top spot of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2009 from Norway (3) which slipped to third…
Buenos Aires and Chicago grew during the nineteenth century for remarkably similar reasons. Both cities were conduits for moving meat and…
Book abstract: The Mexico Competitiveness Report 2009 builds on
the methodology and findings of the World Economic
Forum’s Global…
We estimate the “place premium”—the wage gain that accrues to foreign workers who arrive to work in the United States. First, we estimate…
This paper seeks to explore the diversity of the informal economy across five countries in South Asia: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan,…
Over the past two decades, employment in the informal sector has risen rapidly in all regions in the world. Until the recent Asian economic…