Once upon a time in the world of development finance, it was assumed that simply investing in developing economies was enough—that the flow…
Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
The international community has historically maintained hope that advances in science and technology offer humanity a wide range of options…
Outsourcing government service provision to private firms can improve efficiency and reduce rents, but there are risks that non-…
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A housing lottery in an Indian city provided winning slum dwellers the
opportunity to move into improved housing on the city’s periphery.…
Home-based workers produce goods or services for the market from within or around their own homes: stitching garments and weaving textiles…
The clamour for the right to social pensions is another attempt to deal with the Indian state’s inability to provide adequate social…