This brief provides a practical guide to collecting and compiling statistics on specific categories of informal workers – home based…
Observed over long periods, the upward path of the output of most economies occasionally takes jagged steps down. More often than not,…
Does the lack of peers contribute to the observed gender gap in entrepreneurial success, and is the constraint stronger for women facing…
Jeffrey Frankel
Professor, Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government
Jeffrey A. Frankel is James W. Harpel Professor of Capital…
Despite substantial interest in the potential for mobile money to positively impact the lives of the poor, little empirical evidence exists…
India's child stunting rate is among the highest in the world, exceeding that of
many poorer African countries. In this paper, we analyze…
Germans cannot agree to unlimited bailouts of euro members. On the other hand, if they had insisted on the founding principles (fiscal…
Many claim that China will soon overtake the US. I argue that this claim is based on a misuse of statistics. The International Comparison…
This paper examines the linkage between mobilization and elite capture in participatory institutions using a randomized experiment in Kenya…