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Local Growth Theory
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 1999-06)What is the effect of factor mobility on income convergence? Why are population flows so persistent? Extending the neoclassical growth model to allow for mobile labor, in a long run steady state, individuals and firms ... -
Lockdown Fatigue: The Diminishing Effects of Quarantines on the Spread of COVID-19
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2021-02)Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) have been for most countries the key policy instrument utilized to contain the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this article, we conduct an empirical analysis of the impact of ... -
Long term impact of a Cash-Transfers Program on Labor Outcomes of the Rural Youth
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2012-01)This paper evaluates if, after ten years of implementation, the conditional cash transfer program Progresa/Oportunidades has had an effect on labor market outcomes among young beneficiaries in rural Mexico. We use a specific ... -
The Long-run Effects of South Africa's Forced Resettlements on Employment Outcomes
(2022-10)Can South Africa’s segregation policies explain, at least partially, its current poor employment outcomes? To explore this question, we study the long-term impact of the forced resettlement of around 3.5 million black South ... -
Looking Like a State: Techniques of Persistent Failure in State Capability for Implementation
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2012-06)In many nations today the state has little capability to carry out even basic functions like security, policing, regulation or core service delivery. Enhancing this capability, especially in fragile states, is a long-term ... -
Looking like an Industry: Supporting Commercial Agriculture in Africa
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2013-09)It has long been known that countries only converge conditionally i.e. poor countries catch up with richer ones only if they adopt policies and institutions that are conducive to economic growth. Recently, Dani Rodrik ... -
Loreto’s Hidden Wealth: Economic Complexity Analysis and Productive Diversification Opportunities
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2021-03)The Growth Lab at Harvard University, with funding provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, has undertaken this investigation with the aim of identifying the existing productive capacities in Loreto, as well as ... -
Macroeconomic Adjustment in the Euro Area
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2018-02)Macroeconomic adjustment in the euro area periphery was more recessionary than pre-crisis imbalances would have warranted. To make this claim, this paper uses a Propensity Score Matching Model to produce counterfactuals ... -
Macroeconomic risks after a decade of microeconomic turbulence
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2022-01)This study analyses the performance of macroeconomic policy in South Africa in 2007–2020 and outlines challenges for policy in the coming decade. After remarkable economic growth in 1997–07, South Africa’s progress slowed ... -
Maintaining Local Public Goods
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2013-11)Political Scientists have produced a substantial body of theory and evidence that explains variation in the availability of local public goods in developing countries. Existing research cannot explain variation in how these ... -
Managing for Motivation as Public Performance Improvement Strategy in Education & Far Beyond
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2022-03)People management has an important role to play in improving public agency performance. This paper argues that a ‘Route Y’ managerial approach focused on supporting the empowered exercise of employee judgment will in many ... -
Managing the Remaining Commons: Challenges to Sustainability in the Brazilian Northeast
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2008-12)Common grazing fields tend to disappear in the world. In Brazil, the fundos de pasto (FP) are one of the most important remaining areas to be used under this use regime as common grazing and extraction areas. Threats to ... -
Managing the Risks of Mobile Money: The Banking Agent Reform in Kenya A Scenario-Based Policy Analysis
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2010-04)Kenya is about to embark on an important reform to expand banking to millions of poor households by enabling third-party retail agents as a low-cost distribution alternative to branches. However, this initiative risks being ... -
Managing Your Authorizing Environment in a PDIA Process
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2016-01)Development and state building processes are about change. Change is, however, elusive in many contexts. In prior work, we have offered problem driven iterative adaptation (PDIA) as an approach to tackle wicked hard change ... -
Many Children Left Behind? Textbooks and Test Scores in Kenya
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2007-08)A randomized evaluation suggests that a program which provided official textbooks to randomly selected rural Kenyan primary schools did not increase test scores for the average student. In contrast, the previous literature ... -
Mapping Peer Learning Initiatives in Public Sector Reforms in Development
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2015-04)The origins of this work lie in the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness conference in Busan and its call for a less didactic, “one size fits all” point of entry to improving state capacity (Various, 2011). The ... -
Market Inefficiencies and the Adoption of Agricultural Technologies in Developing Countries
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2011-05)This paper summarizes selected research on market inefficiencies that constrain agricultural technology adoption and how these inefficiencies can be overcome. In developing country settings, agricultural technologies that ... -
Mauritius: African Success Story
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2012-04)Mauritius is a top performer among African countries. It developed a manufacturing sector soon after independence and has managed to respond well to new external shocks. What explains this success? This paper draws on the ... -
A Measure of Countries' Distance to Frontier Based on Comparative Advantage
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2022-09)This paper presents a structural ranking of countries by their distance to frontier. The ranking is based on comparative advantage. Hence, it reveals information on the productive capabilities of countries that is fundamentally ... -
Measuring the Contribution of Criminal Justice Systems to the Control of Crime and Violence: Lessons from Jamaica and the Dominican Republic
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2007-04)Governments facing high levels of crime and violence must act through their criminal justice systems to increase safety while delivering justice. To do this rigorously, governments need to improve their measurement tools. ...