This is the introduction and summary to the fifth phase of an ongoing project on Social Security Programs
and Retirement Around the World.…
Policy analyses frequently clash. Their disagreements stem from many sources, including models, empirical estimates, and values such as who…
This paper examines the correlation between poor health and asset accumulation for households in
the first nine waves of the Health and…
How households draw down the balances that they accumulate in retirement saving accounts such
as 401(k) plans and Individual Retirement…
The characteristics that distinguish most developing countries, compared to large industrialized countries, include: greater exposure to…
Lesotho and other least developed African countries responded impressively to the preferences they
were granted under the African Growth…
Increasing political and economic interconnectedness draws much philosophical attention to the question of the conditions under which such…
Successful public sector reform is rare in Africa. Over twelve years, Ethiopia transformed its public financial management (PFM) to…
In this paper we provide a model of Research Joint Venture (RJV), and study the incentives
of competing firms to cooperate in product…
The global economy and especially its poorest members, face a perfect storm. The crisis has been created by a Global LIE: leverage that is…