The economic growth of South Korea has been a remarkable success story. After the Korean War, the country was one of the poorest economies…
China has enjoyed a higher growth rate for a longer period than any other nation to date, but a new consensus is emerging that China is now…
This book is a story of one village, Yantian, and its remarkable economic and social transformation. The village sits in the Pearl River…
We use a unique data-set from Indonesia on what individuals know about the income
distribution in their village to test theories such as…
Book abstract: In the years following the global financial crisis, many low-income countries experienced rapid recovery and strong economic…
This paper reports an experiment in 640 Indonesian villages on three approaches to target the poor: proxy means tests (PMT), where assets…