It is striking how often countries with oil or other natural resource wealth have failed to grow more rapidly than those without. This is…
A new technique for estimating countries’ de facto exchange rate regimes synthesizes two approaches. One approach estimates the implicit…
With the explosive growth of transnational dealings, professionals in developed countries have expanding opportunities to spread their…
This paper provides a model of how media environments affect political polarization. We first develop a model of how media environments,…
This paper, written for a larger compendium edited by
Dennis Mueller, examines key dynamic features of capitalistic
economies and how…
We describe the major features of a post-2012 international global climate policy architecture with three essential elements: a means to…
This paper introduces a family of multi-period poverty measures
derived from commonly used static poverty measures. Our measures
trade-off…
Evaluations of educational programs commonly assume that what children learn persists over time. The authors compare learning in Pakistani…
Please note that this paper has been revised and is now posted in our series as RWP10-001.
Informal payments are a frequently overlooked source of local public finance in developing countries. We use microdata from ten countries…