Sustainable development requires harnessing technological innovation to improve human well-being in current and future generations. However…
Targeted transfer programs for poor citizens have become increasingly common in the developing world. Yet, a common concern among policy…
A sketch of the International Monetary Fund’s 70-year history reveals an institution that has reinvented itself over time along multiple…
Should China build mega-cities or a network of linked middle-sized
metropolises? Can Europe’s mid-sized cities compete with global…
"Green Bonds" emerged as a new form of environmental financing in 2007. While most investors still view them as a niche product in the…
We often observe that more successful efforts to establish complex state capabilities are problem driven; focused relentlessly on solving a…
Efforts to build state capability often take the form of commonly used, highly designed and engineered best practice solutions that have…
New, “big” data sources allow measurement of city characteristics and outcome
variables higher frequencies and finer geographic scales than…
Asking students to raise their hands is a time-honored feedback mechanism in education. Hand raising allows the teacher to assess to what…
This essay provides an overview of the major emissions trading programs of the past thirty years on which significant documentation exists…