Outsourcing government service provision to private firms can improve efficiency and reduce rents, but there are risks that non-…
Structural reform - or more accurately talk of strucÂtural reform - is everywhere nowadays. Every counÂtry struggling for economic growth,…
Two big questions look somewhat different than they did 10 or 20 years ago. First: would the long-term trend of globalization continue?…
We analyze a novel lobbying channel: firms shifting spending toward a politician's business in the hope of securing favorable regulation.…
Social relations involve both face-to-face interaction as well as telecommunications. We can observe the geography of phone calls and of…
Sustainable development requires harnessing technological innovation to improve human well-being in current and future generations. However…
Targeted transfer programs for poor citizens have become increasingly common in the developing world. Yet, a common concern among policy…
We often observe that more successful efforts to establish complex state capabilities are problem driven; focused relentlessly on solving a…
Efforts to build state capability often take the form of commonly used, highly designed and engineered best practice solutions that have…