Jeffrey Frankel
Professor, Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government
Jeffrey A. Frankel is James W. Harpel Professor of Capital…
Despite substantial interest in the potential for mobile money to positively impact the lives of the poor, little empirical evidence exists…
India's child stunting rate is among the highest in the world, exceeding that of
many poorer African countries. In this paper, we analyze…
Germans cannot agree to unlimited bailouts of euro members. On the other hand, if they had insisted on the founding principles (fiscal…
Many claim that China will soon overtake the US. I argue that this claim is based on a misuse of statistics. The International Comparison…
This paper examines the linkage between mobilization and elite capture in participatory institutions using a randomized experiment in Kenya…
When households increase their deposits in formal bank savings accounts, what
is the source of the money? We combine high-frequency surveys…
The Power of Transparency:
Information, Identification
Cards, and Food Subsidy
Programs in Indonesia
Information, Identification
Cards, and Food Subsidy
Programs in Indonesia
Can governments improve aid programs by providing information to
beneficiaries? In our model, information can change how much aid citizens…
Economics of the Public Sector, Fourth Edition, focuses on the heavily changed, post-global recession world. This new, modern approach…
South Korea has been held out as an economic miracle—as a country that successfully completed the transition from underdeveloped to…