Financial meltdown has been averted in Europe ? for now. But the future of the European Union and the fate of the eurozone still hang in…
In the first half of the last century, Europe tore itself apart in two wars and destroyed its central role in world politics. In the second…
How stunning! How seminal! How revolutionary the results in Tuesday’s primary elections!
Or were they?
Seems everyone who is anyone is…
Firms in Africa report "regulatory and economic policy uncertainty" as a top constraint to their growth.
We argue that often firms in…
Good governance has grown rapidly to become a major ingredient in analyses of what’s missing in countries struggling for economic and…
Ideas about social policy and its role in development have shifted over time, signaling the difficulty of finding clarity in approaches to…
Patronage—the discretionary allocation of public sector jobs—continues to be a dominant way government is staffed in most Latin American…
As countries throughout the world democratize and decentralize, citizen participation in public life should increase. In this paper, I…
We use a rich dataset of weekly cigarette sales to examine how consumers adapt their behavior before and after excise tax increases -…
Humans naturally dispose of objects that disgust them. Is this phenomenon so deeply embedded
that even incidental disgust – i.e., where the…