Previous Poverty and Shared Prosperity Reports have conveyed the difficult message that the world is not on track to meet the global goal…
Reforming public-sector organizations--their structures, policies, processes and practices--is notoriously difficult, in rich and poor…
In this paper I sketch key episodes in the two thousand year history of interactions between society and environment that have shaped the…
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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.…
This paper investigates the determinants of group membership, and in particular the effect of income inequality on individual incentives to…