This paper explores the interactions between state and society in rural India within a major community-based development program. We use…
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India’s persistent gender inequalities remain a major obstacle to inclusive social and economic development. Patriarchal norms are deeply…
Students often ask me how they can build a career in international development, a field that offers vast opportunities to create meaningful…
Education, often considered the cornerstone of development, faces a dual challenge in today’s world: equipping students to navigate the…
Once upon a time in the world of development finance, it was assumed that simply investing in developing economies was enough—that the flow…
Experimental evidence from Pakistan shows distance poses a large and discontinuous access constraint: women with village-based training…
Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
We estimate the equilibrium effects of a public school grant program administered through school councils in Pakistani villages with…
Using rich panel data from Pakistan, we compute test score based measures of quality (School Value-Addeds or SVAs) for more than 800…
The comparative advantage of a location shapes its industrial structure. Current theoretical models based on this principle do not take a…