The COVID-19 pandemic has focused attention on the important role that frontline retail, grocery, food service, and delivery workers play…
“Digital government” is becoming simply “government.” As a result, an ever-increasing number of systems and processes critical to the…
The issue of debt sustainability has been the focus of continued theoretical and practical interest over the years. In emerging markets,…
This paper uses historical labor market data to assess the plausibility that the Federal Reserve can engineer a soft landing for the…
Will the Opportunity Zones (OZ) program, America’s largest new place-based policy in decades, generate neighborhood change? We compare…
We examine a new dataset of public procurement laws, practice, and outcomes in 187 countries. We measure regulation as restrictions on the…
We compare how in-kind food assistance and an electronic voucher-based program affect the delivery of aid in practice. The Government of…
Highlights
• Economic complexity offers a potentially powerful paradigm to understand key societal issues and challenges of our time.
•…
Oil and gas exports represent Russia’s key geopolitical strength, as well as its major source of hard currency revenues (1–3). At current…
Following the Russian aggression against Ukraine, major sanctions have been imposed by Western countries, most notably with the aim of…