It is painfully clear that South Africa is performing poorly, exacerbating problems such as inequality and exclusion. The economy’s ability…
Lebanon’s current economic crisis ranks among the worst in recent history. GDP has collapsed by 38% in real terms. The Lebanese lira, which…
China’s ongoing economic slowdown is partly the result of its failure to implement crucial structural reforms that would have enabled it to…
Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
Can taxes on consumption redistribute in developing countries? Contrary to consensus, we show that taxing consumption is progressive once…
What difference does it make, if any, both analytically and from a policy response perspective, when the basis for the type of social…
In her new book "Doppelganger," leftist writer and activist Naomi Klein seeks to make sense of our current political climate by exploring…
The "Tutoring Online Program" (TOP), launched in Italy in 2020, is an online educational reinforcement tutoring program that offered…
Exploiting a new global macro-historical database of effective tax rates, we uncover an intriguing pro-tax-capacity effect of international…
Experimental evidence from Pakistan shows distance poses a large and discontinuous access constraint: women with village-based training…