Students often ask me how they can build a career in international development, a field that offers vast opportunities to create meaningful…
During the November 1, 2024 session of CID’s Fall Workshop Series, “The Politics of Failed Development: Inside IMF Look at Africa,” Dr.…
Once upon a time in the world of development finance, it was assumed that simply investing in developing economies was enough—that the flow…
It is painfully clear that South Africa is performing poorly, exacerbating problems such as inequality and exclusion. The economy’s ability…
Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
We propose a model to study when an intermediate action can serve as a stepping stone that enables the elimination of a harmful norm. While…
We exploit a policy designed to randomly allocate roommates in a large South African university to investigate whether interracial…
BMJ Global Health, December 2021:
Author: Margaret E Kruk, et al.
Introduction Maternity waiting homes (MWHs) aim to increase access…
This paper studies the role of technology in local-government tax collection capacity in the developing world. We first conduct a new…
The Economic Complexity of Namibia: A Roadmap for Productive Diversification
CID Faculty Working Paper No. 410
Ricardo Hausmann, Miguel…