Highlights
• Fighting a pandemic in poor countries may involve not just a trade-off between lives and livelihoods, but an even more…
China's lending boom to developing countries is morphing into defaults and debt distress. Given the secrecy surrounding China's loans, the…
What Will It Take for Jordan to Grow?
CID Faculty Working Paper No. 411
Tim O’Brien, Thảo-Nguyên Bùi, Ermal Frasheri, Fernando Garcia,…
Cutting Putin’s Energy Rent: ‘Smart Sanctioning’ Russian Oil and Gas
CID Faculty Working Paper No. 412
Ricardo Hausmann, Agata Łoskot-…
COVID-19 deepened and accelerated a troubling trend of economic backsliding that had appeared around half a decade earlier. We call this…
Rising real food prices are an exceptionally regressive shock—both within countries as well as across them.
We compare how in-kind food assistance and an electronic voucher-based program affect the delivery of aid in practice. The Government of…
Highlights
• Economic complexity offers a potentially powerful paradigm to understand key societal issues and challenges of our time.
•…
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We study how large shocks impact individuals’ skilling decisions using data from the largest online learning platform in Saudi Arabia. The…
The Economic Complexity of Namibia: A Roadmap for Productive Diversification
CID Faculty Working Paper No. 410
Ricardo Hausmann, Miguel…