Concerns about fraud in welfare programs are common arguments worldwide against such programs. We conducted a survey experiment with over…
The issue of debt sustainability has been the focus of continued theoretical and practical interest over the years. In emerging markets,…
We compare two approaches to increasing tax revenue: tax administration and tax rates. We show that when Indonesia moved top regional firms…
A majority of countries neither freely float their currencies nor firmly peg. But most of the remainder in practice also don’t obey such…
• The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented strain on public finances across developing countries. Large fiscal responses and weak…
In the face of the trifecta of fiscal adversity currently facing governments as
a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, this report brings good…
Emily Breza for VoxDev
March 27, 2020
In an article for VoxDev, CID Faculty Affiliate Emily Breza, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and…
Some of the leading candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination have proposed radical measures to reduce inequality, such as…
Governments across the world regularly pursue reforms that achieve less than was originally expected or is needed to make the state…
The power of Pan-Africanism as a guiding vision for the continent’s development is widely studied, mostly as an aspirational phenomenon. At…