The power of Pan-Africanism as a guiding vision for the continent’s development is widely studied, mostly as an aspirational phenomenon. At…
More than half of the world’s population now lives in cities. Cities are seen as “engines of economic growth” by many observers. Yet the…
Popular commentary often points to the lower lifetime earnings and longer expected life spans of women relative to men as a reason to be…
This paper presents a conceptual account of urban governance in Mumbai as a rent-sharing system based fundamentally on control over urban…
James Carras is Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy. For over 30 years, as Principal of Carras Community Investment, Inc., he has…
Rema Hanna is the Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies and Chair of the International Development Area at the Harvard Kennedy…
See the op-ed in The Boston Globe by Carr Senior Fellow John Shattuck.
An authoritarian nationalist regime in Hungary is…
Several field experiments find positive returns to grants for male and not female microentrepreneurs. But, these analyses largely overlook…
A housing lottery in an Indian city provided winning slum dwellers the opportunity to move into improved housing on the city’s periphery.…
The majority of women workers in developing countries – and a significant share of women workers in developed countries – are informally…