Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
The international community has historically maintained hope that advances in science and technology offer humanity a wide range of options…
Countries that specialize in commodities have in recent years been hit by high volatility in world prices for their exports. This paper…
What’s the best predictor of which candidate will win the presidential nomination? The winner of the Iowa caucus? The winner of the New…
From late 2010 through 2011, popular uprisings toppled authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya. In each country, a key component…
In many countries, polling day ends with disputes about ballot-box fraud, corruption, and flawed registers. Which claims are legitimate?…
It has long been known that countries only converge conditionally i.e. poor countries catch up with richer ones only if they adopt policies…
The prevailing aid orthodoxy works well enough in stable environments, but is ill-equipped to navigate contexts of volatility and fragility…
Though Egyptian voters clearly evince a desire for Islamic law (however defined), public opinion research shows that they also want robust…
Days after the beginning of the Libyan uprising in February 2011, a self-appointed group of human rights lawyers and defectors from Qaddafi…