This paper argues that the debt forgiveness provided by the U.S. consumer bankruptcy system helped stabilize employment levels during the…
There are economically large costs of pretrial detention—and, by extension, the use of cash bail—due to the significant collateral…
Following the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, the labour rights violations in global supply chains, and indeed the governance of…
Throughout history, technological progress has transformed population health, but the distributional effects of these gains are unclear.…
In the decade 1999-2009, Jordan experienced an impressive growth acceleration, tripling its exports and increasing income per capita by 38…
Approaching the seventieth anniversary of its founding in April 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) remains the single most…
The early years of the Internet were marked by a libertarian optimism about its decentralizing and democratizing effects. Information would…
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development generates new demands for
integrated and coherent public policies, including effective and…
Few tasks could be more important than keeping nuclear weapons and their essential ingredients out of terrorist hands. The world community…
The 3rd edition of Women and Men in the Informal Economy estimates that two billion (61 per cent) of the global employed population earn…