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Japan’s Economic Puzzle
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2024-03)In examining the economic landscape of Japan through a conventional lens, one might conclude that its performance is lackluster, particularly when compared to other advanced economies like the United States and Germany. ... -
Job Search and Hiring with Two-Sided Limited Information about Workseekers' Skills
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2020-07)This paper presents field experimental evidence that limited information about workseekers’ skills distorts both firm and workseeker behavior. Assessing workseekers’ skills, giving workseekers their assessment results, and ... -
Jordan: The Elements of a Growth Strategy
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2019-04)In the decade 1999-2009, Jordan experienced an impressive growth acceleration, tripling its exports and increasing income per capita by 38%. Since then, a number of external shocks that include the Global Financial Crisis ... -
Keeping One's Eye on the Ball: Exploring the Intensity of Sports Activities across Europe
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2016-07)As described in Russell, Barrios & Andrews (2016), past attempts to understand the sports economy have been constrained by a number of data limitations. For instance, many of these accounts use revenues when value added ... -
Knowledge Diffusion in the Network of International Business Travel
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-08-10)We use aggregated and anonymized information based on international expenditures through corporate payment cards to map the network of global business travel. We combine this network with information on the industrial ... -
La Complejidad Economica de Chiapas: Analisis de Capacidades y Posibilidades de Diversificacion Productiva
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2015-09)Chiapas es el estado más pobre de México, y también el menos diversificado en su estructura productiva. Según los hallazgos de este reporte, esa dualidad no es una coincidencia casual. La escasa complejidad económica de ... -
La Riqueza Escondida de Loreto: Análisis de Complejidad Económica y Oportunidades de Diversificación Productiva
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2020-10)El Laboratorio de Crecimiento de la Universidad de Harvard, bajo el auspicio de la Fundación Gordon and Betty Moore, ha desarrollado esta investigación para identificar las capacidades productivas existentes en Loreto y ... -
Labor Market Nationalization Policies and Firm Outcomes: Evidence from Saudi Arabia
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2020-07)Saudi Arabia is home to the world’s third largest migrant population. Under mounting pressure to increase the private sector employment of Saudis during the last decade, a series of nationalization policies on the labor ... -
Law and Finance in Transition Economies
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2000-06)This paper offers the first comprehensive analysis of legal change in the protection of shareholder and creditor rights in transition economies and its impact on the propensity of firms to raise external finance. Following ... -
Leading with Intentionality: The 4P Framework for Strategic Leadership
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2020)The year 2020 has brought one crisis after another, perhaps exacerbating a common belief that a “heroic leader” can save the day. But does this mythical figure really exist? Leadership, once we study it, isn’t one thing ... -
Leaning-against-the-wind intervention and the “carry-trade” view of the cost of reserves
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2022-10)For a sample of emerging economies, we estimate the quasi-fiscal costs of sterilized foreign exchange interventions as the P&L of an inverse carry trade. We show that these costs can be substantial when intervention has a ... -
Learning Through Noticing: Theory and Experimental Evidence in Farming
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2012-09)Existing learning models attribute failures to learn to a lack of data. We model a different barrier. Given the large number of dimensions one could focus on when using a technology, people may fail to learn because they ... -
Learning to Engage New Investors for Economic Diversification: PDIA in action in Sri Lanka
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2017-10)Many countries, like Sri Lanka, are trying to diversify their economies but often lack the capabilities to lead diversification programs. One of these capabilities relates to engaging new investors—in new sectors—to bring ... -
Learning to Improve the Investment Climate for Economic Diversification: PDIA in action in Sri Lanka
(2017-10)Many countries, like Sri Lanka, are trying to diversify their economies but often lack the capabilities to lead diversification programs. One of these capabilities relates to preparing the investment climate in the country. ... -
Learning to Target for Economic Diversification: PDIA in Sri Lanka
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2017-01)Many countries, like Sri Lanka, are trying to diversify their economies but often lack the capabilities to lead diversification programs. One of these capabilities relates to targeting new sectors to promote and pursue ... -
Lessons Relearned: Can Previous Research on Incentive-Based Mechanisms Point the Way for Payments for Ecosystem Services?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2007-01)Payments for ecosystem services (PES) are policies in which individuals or communities are compensated for undertaking actions that increase the provision of ecosystem services such as water purification, flood mitigation, ... -
Let’s Take the Con Out of Randomized Control Trials in Development: The Puzzles and Paradoxes of External Validity, Empirically Illustrated
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2021)The enthusiasm for the potential of RCTs in development rests in part on the assumption that the use of the rigorous evidence that emerges from an RCT (or from a small set of studies identified as rigorous in a “systematic” ... -
Limitations to crop diversification for enhancing the resilience of rain-fed subsistence agriculture to drought
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2011-11)Diversification of agricultural systems is a standard suggestion for increasing the resilience of rain-fed subsistence farming to drought. However, grain crops share many physiological characteristics, potentially forming ... -
Linking International Agricultural Research Knowledge with Action for Sustainable Poverty Alleviation: What Works?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2008-07)This paper asks ‘What kinds of approaches and institutions, under what sorts of conditions, are most effective for harnessing scientific knowledge in support of strategies for environmentally sustainable development and ... -
Linking Knowledge and Action in Global Health – Current Concepts, Approaches, and Institutions
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2006-08)There is a new interest in the role that research and knowledge play in improving health in developing countries. In particular, the question of how knowledge can be better linked to policy and action has been receiving ...