The economic growth of South Korea has been a remarkable success story. After the Korean War, the country was one of the poorest economies…
China has enjoyed a higher growth rate for a longer period than any other nation to date, but a new consensus is emerging that China is now…
This book is a story of one village, Yantian, and its remarkable economic and social transformation. The village sits in the Pearl River…
We use a unique data-set from Indonesia on what individuals know about the income
distribution in their village to test theories such as…
Book abstract: In the years following the global financial crisis, many low-income countries experienced rapid recovery and strong economic…
The possibility that the renminbi may soon join the ranks of international currencies has
generated much excitement. This paper looks to…
The purpose of this essay has not been to provide China with a detailed list of all of the things that the country must do to maintain a…
The clamour for the right to social pensions is another attempt to deal with the Indian state’s inability to provide adequate social…
This paper reports an experiment in 640 Indonesian villages on three approaches to target the poor: proxy means tests (PMT), where assets…
In this paper, we provide a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies. The standard way to model corruption is as an…