Governance indicators have come under fire in recent years, especially the World Governance Indicators (WGIs). Critics present these…
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown promotes it as a vehicle for creating high-skill jobs. French President Nicolas Sarkozy talks about…
On Feb. 22, Cetin Dogan, a retired four-star Turkish Army general, was detained and subsequently imprisoned by Turkish prosecutors, accused…
This book has been prepared for the Commission on Growth and Development to evaluate the prospects for economic growth in developing…
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Thanks to deft diplomatic footwork, a US-China confrontation over the renminbi has been avoided – or at least postponed. This is a very…
This paper has been archived. Please see RWP12-054 for the latest revised version. Original abstract: Data on 2,288 married women from the…
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