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Baja California: Diagnóstico de Crecimiento
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2018-09)Baja California se ha ubicado consistentemente entre los estados más prósperos de México, pero también entre los de crecimiento más volátil. De hecho, el desempeño económico reciente del estado estuvo marcado por una fuerte ... -
Baja California: Diagnóstico Industrial
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2018-09)En este estudio se consideraron los productos priorizados en el Reporte de Complejidad Económica de Baja California y se procedió a evaluar su potencial a partir de un conjunto de consideraciones de mercado. Luego, se ... -
Baja California: Insumos para el desarrollo de recomendaciones
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2018-09)En primer lugar, en este reporte se realizó una consolidación de los principales hallazgos de las investigaciones previas relativas al estado. En términos generales, se planteó que la entidad destaca por ser una de las más ... -
Baja California: Reporte de Complejidad Económica
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2018-09)En el Diagnóstico de Crecimiento de Baja California se describieron las principales tendencias recientes del desempeño económico del estado. En esta subsección se resumen los principales hallazgos de dicho reporte, a modo ... -
A Balance-Sheet Approach to Fiscal Sustainability
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2007-10)Recent empirical research on emerging markets debt, currency crises and fiscal sustainability has placed a significant focus on the role of currency mismatches with the emphasis placed on the currency composition of explicit ... -
Being Special: The Rise of Super Clubs in European Football
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2015-01)Professional football clubs are ubiquitous in Europe. Every small to medium sized city has one. But most cities do not have an F.C. Barcelona or Bayern Munich or Manchester United. These are among the ‘super clubs’ of ... -
The Best of Rules and Discretion: A Case for Nominal GDP Targeting in India
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2014-07)The recent revival of interest in nominal GDP (NGDP) targeting has come in the context of large advanced economies. We argue that the case for NGDP targeting is even more appealing for mid-sized developing countries, because ... -
Better Knowledge Need Not Affect Behavior: A Randomized Evaluation on the Demand for Lottery Tickets in Rural Thailand
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2014-04)Despite the poor odds, low-income households in rural Thailand spend significant amounts on tickets of the Thai Government Lottery. One explanation might be that, due to lack of information about the properties of the game, ... -
Beyond Pay-As-You-Go and Full-Capitalization Pension Systems: Why Notional Accounts Are a Suitable Option for Latin America
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2014-04)This paper discusses the viability of three alternative pension systems for Latin America: full-capitalization, pay-as-you-go (PAYG) and notional account systems. Making use of a set of simulations, the pros and cons of ... -
The Big Players in the Foreign Exchange Market: Do They Trade on Information or Noise?
(1999-03)This paper studies whether there exists private information in the foreign exchange market, and whether speculation reduces or exacerbates volatility. It makes use of a recent data set on foreign currency positions by large ... -
The Big Stuck in State Capability for Policy Implementation
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2016-01)We divide the 102 historically developing countries (HDCs) into those with ‘very weak’, ‘weak’, ‘middle’, and ‘strong’ state capability. Analyzing the levels and recent growth rates of the HDCs’ capability for policy ... -
Biofuels and Certification: A Workshop at the Kennedy School of Government, May 11–12, 2009
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2009-11)On May 11th and 12th, 2009, Harvard Kennedy School’s Environment and Natural Resources Program (ENRP) and the Sustainability Science Program (SSP) brought over 20 of the world’s leading experts from the fields of science, ... -
Biofuels and Sustainable Development
(2008)The goals and concerns surrounding the debate over government policies related to the greater use and production of biofuels were addressed in an executive session convened by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at ... -
The Birth and Growth of New Export Clusters: Which Mechanisms Drive Diversification?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2017-09)Export diversification is associated with economic growth and development. Our paper explores competing mechanisms that mediate the emergence and growth of export products based on their economic relatedness to pre-existing ... -
Border, Border, Wide and Far, How We Wonder What You Are
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 1999-09)This paper exploits a three-dimensional panel data set of prices on 27 traded goods, over 88 quarters, across 96 cities in the U.S. and Japan. We present evidence that the distribution of intranational real exchange rates ... -
Boundary Organizations, Objects and Agents: Linking Knowledge with Action in Agroforestry Watersheds. Report of a Workshop held in Batu, Malang, East Java, Indonesia, 26–29 July 2007
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2008-12)On July 26-29, 2007, researchers, scholars, and practitioners convened at Brawijaya University in Malang, East Java, to share, learn about, and discuss, preliminary findings from a research project conducted by the World ... -
Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2016-03)Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds ... -
Bringing Development Strategy Back In: New Insights from China, South Korea and Singapore
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2022-07)This paper examines the economic development experiences of China, South Korea and Singapore from the lens of strategy. It attempts to answer the following question: can countries’ economic success be attributed, even ... -
Bringing Home the Gold? A Review of the Economic Impact of Hosting Mega-Events
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2016-07)There is perhaps no larger sports policy decision than the decision to host or bid to host a mega-event like the FIFA World Cup or the Summer Olympics. Hosts and bidders usually justify their decisions by touting their ... -
The Building Blocks of Economic Complexity
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2009-09)For Adam Smith, wealth was related to the division of labor. As people and firms specialize in different activities, economic efficiency increases, suggesting that development is associated with an increase in the number ...