We use literacy data available in the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for 129 survey rounds, across 54 countries, to estimate the…
We develop a conceptual framework to highlight the role of ideas as a catalyst for policy and institutional change. We make an explicit…
While the informal sector is the ‘forgotten’ sector in many ways, it provides livelihoods, employment and income for about 2.5 million…
The international community has historically maintained hope that advances in science and technology offer humanity a wide range of options…
Sustained high economic growth since the early 1990s has brought significant change to the lives of Indian women, and yet female labor…
The power of Pan-Africanism as a guiding vision for the continent’s development is widely studied, mostly as an aspirational phenomenon. At…
Inequality has become a major political preoccupation in the advanced economies – and for good reason. In the US, according to the recently…
The recent economic depression in Greece hit the population of Albanian migrants in Greece particularly hard, spurring a wave of return…