Throughout history, major political and economic shocks have often occurred in August, when leaders have gone on vacation believing that…
I am very proud to receive an honorary degree from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT). Being my first degree…
This paper reports an experiment in 640 Indonesian villages on three approaches to target the poor: proxy means tests (PMT), where assets…
We use a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and…
Decades of research in ecology have shown that nestedness is a ubiquitous characteristic of both, biological and economic ecosystems. The…
In poor countries, over a quarter of children under the age of five years
are malnourished. The corresponding rate in rich countries is…
Countries with oil, mineral or other natural resource wealth, on average, have failed to show better economic performance than those…
The proximate cause of poverty is low productivity. Poor people are poor because their labor produces too little to adequately feed and…
Why was the Arab World Poised for Revolution? Schooling, Economic Opportunities, and the Arab Spring
What underlying long-term conditions set the stage for the Arab Spring? In recent decades, the Arab region has been characterized by an…