This briefing by Martha Alter Chen and Rachel Moussié of Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) explores the IMF’s…
GROWTH IN AMERICAN prison and jail populations over the last 40 years has propelled the U.S. incarceration rate to the highest in the world…
This chapter analyzes the movement of people to and in Europe through the historical lens of “travel control”. Focusing on the so-called…
This volume presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political and…
The Arab NGO Network on Development (ANND) launched the third issue of the Arab Watch on Economic and Social Rights, with a focus on the…
Growing up taking survival for granted makes people more open to new ideas and more tolerant of outgroups. Insecurity has the opposite…
This essay provides one economist’s perspective on the two-decade evolution of the field of environmental economics, by tracing it through…
In this major new work, Bancroft Prize-winning scholar Odd Arne Westad argues that the Cold War must be understood as a global ideological…