Previous Poverty and Shared Prosperity Reports have conveyed the difficult message that the world is not on track to meet the global goal…
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This month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reconsecrated the Hagia Sophia — a UNESCO world heritage site and museum — as a house of…
Nearly a thousand officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This paper documents the large, racially-disparate…
I study the role of aspirations in economic development drawing on the existing theoretical and empirical literature and provide some new…
Reforming public-sector organizations--their structures, policies, processes and practices--is notoriously difficult, in rich and poor…
From Aristotle to Acemoglu and Robinson, scholars have argued that democracy possesses powerful redistributive impulses, and imperils…