Book abstract: Between 1978 and 2006, GDP growth in China maintained an annual average rate of 9.7%, meaning the Chinese economy increased…
Writing exactly 130 years ago, Robert Louis Stevenson acknowledged in A Plea for Gas Lamps that “Cities given, the problem was to light…
This article examines the conceptual, measurement, and regulatory challenges of promoting decent work for domestic workers. After a brief…
Many small countries on the periphery have experimented with policies and institutions that could usefully be adopted by others.
Two…
The penetration of formal insurance among low-income populations in developing countries remains low. Under such circumstances, some…
In his acceptance speech as Chairman of the Assembly of the African Union (AU) in February 2010, President Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi…
African agriculture is currently at a crossroads, at which persistent food shortages are compounded by threats from climate change. But, as…
Justin Lin wants to make structuralist economics respectable again, and I applaud him for that. He wants to marry structuralism with…