Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
Concerns about fraud in welfare programs are common arguments worldwide against such programs. We conducted a survey experiment with over…
We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to 2019. The shock…
In this paper, I review evidence on changing global specialization in labor-intensive exporting. Production of apparel, footwear, furniture…
We assess the impact of a transparency and accountability program designed to improve maternal and newborn health (MNH) outcomes in…
Developing country governments are increasingly implementing cash assistance programs to combat poverty and inequality. This paper examines…
The international community has historically maintained hope that advances in science and technology offer humanity a wide range of options…
Nation 1 is seeking to join the nuclear club. Nation 2, its enemy, would like to prevent this, and has the potential to destroy 1’s bomb-…
This analysis argues that the period of easy reforms in China has ended, and
the time of difficult reforms that touch core political…
A majority of countries neither freely float their currencies nor firmly peg. But most of the remainder in practice also don’t obey such…