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Despite recent growing demand from funders and governments, rigorous impact evaluations in Latin America and the Caribbean remain the…
Many developing countries have a history of highly centralized governments. Since the late 1980s, a large number of these governments have…
Empirical research on cities starts with a spatial equilibrium condition: workers and firms are assumed to be indifferent across space.…
It is by now a cliché to observe that Barack Obama took office facing the greatest challenge of any United States president since Franklin…
President Obama faces a classic diplomatic challenge in South Asia - how to balance a short-term need for progress in Afghanistan and…
Recent developments, especially the devastating economic crisis, have highlighted the world’s growing interdependence and drawn attention…
This paper introduces a family of multi-period poverty measures
derived from commonly used static poverty measures. Our measures
trade-off…
Despite the high level of funding and policy interest in prisoner
reentry, there is still little rigorous scientific evidence to guide…
This book is a dialogue about poverty in North America, especially in Mexico and the United States. Poverty has different roots and…