We study the impact of providing school and child test scores on subsequent test scores, prices, and enrollment in markets with multiple…
Using the most comprehensive developing country dataset ever compiled on air and water pollution and environmental regulations, the paper…
As an intrinsic part of the classic microfinance model, group meetings are intended to employ social capital to ensure timely repayment.…
In the century ahead, U.S. strategic interests will align more closely with India's than they will with those of any other continental…
Although in theory elections are supposed to prevent criminal or venal candidates from winning or retaining office, in practice voters…
It has been proposed that central banks should target Nominal GDP (NGDP), as an alternative to targeting the money supply, exchange rate,…
Four out of five urban workers in modern India are engaged in the informal economy, and half of these are self-employed This article…
The incredibly low levels of learning and the generally dysfunctional public sector schooling systems in many (though not all) developing…
Home-based workers produce goods or services for the market from within or around their own homes: stitching garments and weaving textiles…
In many countries, polling day ends with disputes about ballot-box fraud, corruption, and flawed registers. Which claims are accurate? And…