We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states. In particular, this is the…
It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve
health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse…
In poor countries, over a quarter of children under the age of five years
are malnourished. The corresponding rate in rich countries is…
In the past, industrial countries have tended to pursue countercyclical or, at worst, acyclical fiscal policy. In sharp contrast, emerging…
The large economies have each, in sequence, offered “models” that once seemed attractive to others but that eventually gave way to…
Countries with oil, mineral or other natural resource wealth, on average, have failed to show better economic performance than those…
We explore a framework that could be used to assign quantitative allocations of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), across all countries…
Outsiders must be a little mystified as to why the Obama administration’s nomination of Jim Young Kim to lead the World Bank has kicked up…
The article presents a speech by development economist Lant Pritchett
delivered in the Belmont First Ward in Belmont, Massachusetts on…