In this paper we establish six stylized facts related to marriage and work in Latin America and present a simple model to account for them…
Financial meltdown has been averted in Europe ? for now. But the future of the European Union and the fate of the eurozone still hang in…
Firms in Africa report "regulatory and economic policy uncertainty" as a top constraint to their growth.
We argue that often firms in…
Good governance has grown rapidly to become a major ingredient in analyses of what’s missing in countries struggling for economic and…
Patronage—the discretionary allocation of public sector jobs—continues to be a dominant way government is staffed in most Latin American…
As countries throughout the world democratize and decentralize, citizen participation in public life should increase. In this paper, I…
A number of development assistance programs promote community interaction as a means of building
social capital. Yet, despite strong…
Throughout, the history of the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region, natural resource wealth has been critical for its economies.…
Development economists should stop acting as categorical advocates (or detractors) for specific approaches to development. They should…