Large retailers have significant positive spillovers on nearby businesses, and both
private and public mechanisms exist to attract them. We…
The incredibly low levels of learning and the generally dysfunctional public sector schooling systems in many (though not all) developing…
Many public sector reforms in developing countries fail to make governments more functional. This is typically because reforms introduce…
Politicians and scholars have long argued that democracies are less prone to international
conflict, at least with other democracies.…
We propose and implement a new technique for measuring the total magnitude of a growth episode: the change in output per capita resulting…
Behavioral science is increasingly being used to develop interventions to influence important behaviors throughout society. We explore…
This paper, written for a World Trade Organization compendium, investigates the possibilities open to developing nations for controlling…
The last ten years have seen the growth of linkages between many of the world’s cap-and-trade systems for greenhouse gases (GHGs), both…
In the last half a century, Singapore has gone through truly astonishing transformations. It has now arguably come of age as a First World…
The author’s 2012 book On Global Justice gives pride of place to the idea that humanity collectively owns the earth. Independently of this…