We compare two approaches to increasing tax revenue: tax administration and tax rates. We show that when Indonesia moved top regional firms…
Governments seeking to provide food assistance have a choice between providing in-kind food directly to beneficiaries, or providing…
• The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented strain on public finances across developing countries. Large fiscal responses and weak…
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…