International organizations like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank have been
supporting reform initiatives in developing…
The approach of 2015, the target date of the Millennium Development Goals, sets the stage for a global
reengagement on the question of “…
The author comments on the Gezi protest against the sectarianism of Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The author says that…
This paper studies the relationship between sovereign spreads and the interaction between debt composition and debt levels in advanced and…
At the beginning of the twentieth century Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had become the…
Book abstract: At the beginning of the twentieth century Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had…
Book abstract: At the beginning of the twentieth century Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had…
Agricultural Development in China explains how China’s farm economy historically responded to the demands of a rising population. Dwight H…
Can protests cause political change, or are they merely symptoms of underlying shifts in policy preferences? We address this question by…
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The literature on knowledge diffusion shows that it decays strongly
with distance. In this paper we document that the probability that
a…