Once upon a time in the world of development finance, it was assumed that simply investing in developing economies was enough—that the flow…
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Research Summary
The microfinance “group lending” approach has achieved widespread success in promoting high rates of repayment, and thus…
Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
The authors emphasize that the world urgently requires trillions of dollars to invest in climate action and biodiversity protection to keep…
We estimate the equilibrium effects of a public school grant program administered through school councils in Pakistani villages with…
Emily Breza for VoxDev
March 27, 2020
In an article for VoxDev, CID Faculty Affiliate Emily Breza, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and…
Akash Deep is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy specializing in finance, faculty chair of the Infrastructure in a Market…
For more information, go to Professor Asim Khwaja's full website and twitter. Asim Ijaz Khwaja is the Director of the Harvard Center…
Rema Hanna is the Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies and Chair of the International Development Area at the Harvard Kennedy…
Bureaucracies often post staff to better or worse locations, ostensibly to provide incentives.
Yet we know little about whether this works…