Developing country governments are increasingly implementing cash assistance programs to combat poverty and inequality. This paper examines…
More than 660 million Indians live in areas that exceed the Indian National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for fine particulate (PM2.…
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Introduces eight country cases from East Asia to explore how recent reforms have been undertaken in public financial management (PFM) and…
Mining industries form a significant share of the industrial landscape of many poor countries. At the same time, mining activities have…
We test for financial constraints as a market failure in education in a low-income country by experimentally allocating unconditional cash…
The literature on income gaps between Chiapas and the rest of Mexico revolves around individual factors, such as education and ethnicity.…
Reforming public-sector organizations--their structures, policies, processes and practices--is notoriously difficult, in rich and poor…
Scholars, practitioners and many others regularly comment on the pace of China’s economic reforms, but there is no consensus on what…