Based on survey research and ethnographic interviews, we analyze struggles over housing and access to infrastructure in two low-income "…
In this report Andrews takes a specific look at whether Sweden has
contributed to increased realism in poor country reform of ’public…
Rethinking economics, from the inside out.
In the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession, economics seems anything but a…
This book argues that Africa can feed itself in a generation and help contribute to global food security despite its history of persistent…
No matter which way you look at it, Chiapas is the most backward of any state in Mexico. Its per capita income is the lowest of the 32…
A review of "Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa: From the Margins to the Centre."
As shown in the 1930s by Hicks and Robinson the elasticity of substitution (s) is
a key parameter that captures whether capital and labor…
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To reduce poverty and food insecurity in Africa requires raising productivity in agriculture.
Systematic use of fertilizer and hybrid seed…
We study the economic effects of religious practices in the context of the observance of Ramadan fasting, one of the central tenets of…
Does the lack of peers contribute to the observed gender gap in entrepreneurial success, and is the constraint stronger for women facing…