Emily Breza for VoxDev
March 27, 2020
In an article for VoxDev, CID Faculty Affiliate Emily Breza, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and…
I study the role of aspirations in economic development drawing on the existing theoretical and empirical literature and provide some new…
The status of economic liberties remains a serious lacuna in the theory and practice of human rights. Should a minimally just society…
The 3rd edition of Women and Men in the Informal Economy estimates that two billion (61 per cent) of the global employed population earn…
Historically, the quest to reduce poverty has relied on two levers: economic growth (the idea that “a rising tide lifts all boats”) and the…
Understanding the differences between rich and poor places is complicated by the fact that places differ from each other in numerous ways.…
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…
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The international community has historically maintained hope that advances in science and technology offer humanity a wide range of options…