Technology is a key driver of change, not least in the world of work. Yet little is known about what technologies are used by – or impact…
Motivated by our experience in designing a particular social program, skill set signaling for new entrants to the labor market in Peru, we…
Since the Zapatista revolution of January 1994, enormous amount of resources coming from the federal government have poured over Chiapas.…
No matter which way you look at it, Chiapas is the most backward of any state in Mexico. Its per capita income is the lowest of the 32…
Book abstract: At the beginning of the twentieth century Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had…
Book abstract: In the years following the global financial crisis, many low-income countries experienced rapid recovery and strong economic…
It is striking how often countries that are
rich with oil, minerals or fertile land have
failed to grow more rapidly than those without.…
As we consider over two decades of change in Bolivia, it now seems to us that understanding history involves adjusting short-term…
Many small countries on the periphery have experimented with policies and institutions that could usefully be adopted by others.
Two…