We assemble a dataset of the universe of economics and business journal articles published since 1980 to assess differences in the levels…
Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
Governments seeking to provide food assistance have a choice between providing in-kind food directly to beneficiaries, or providing…
We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law firms in the world.…
Previous Poverty and Shared Prosperity Reports have conveyed the difficult message that the world is not on track to meet the global goal…
I study the role of aspirations in economic development drawing on the existing theoretical and empirical literature and provide some new…
The 3rd edition of Women and Men in the Informal Economy estimates that two billion (61 per cent) of the global employed population earn…
We test for financial constraints as a market failure in education in a low-income country by experimentally allocating unconditional cash…
Reforming public-sector organizations--their structures, policies, processes and practices--is notoriously difficult, in rich and poor…
The international community has historically maintained hope that advances in science and technology offer humanity a wide range of options…