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National Development Delivers: And How! And How?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2021-05)Core dual ideas of early development economics and practice were that (a) national development was a four-fold transformation of countries towards: (i) a more productive economy, (ii) a more responsive state, (iii) more ... -
Natural Openness and Good Government
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2001-02)This paper offers a possibly new interpretation of the connection between openness and good governance. Assuming that corruption and bad governance drive out international trade and investment more than domestic trade and ... -
The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey
It is striking how often countries with oil or other natural resource wealth have failed to grow more rapidly than those without. This is the phenomenon known as the Natural Resource Curse. The principle is not confined ... -
The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey of Diagnoses and Some Prescriptions
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2012-04)Countries with oil, mineral or other natural resource wealth, on average, have failed to show better economic performance than those without, often because of undesirable side effects. This is the phenomenon known as the ... -
Negative Alchemy? Corruption, Composition of Capital Flows, and Currency Crises
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2001-03)Crony capitalism and self-fulfilling expectations by international creditors are often suggested as two rival explanations for currency crisis. This paper examines a possible linkage between the two that has not been ... -
Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2012-08)Learning profiles that track changes in student skills per year of schooling often find shockingly low learning gains. Using data from three recent studies in South Asia and Africa, we show that a majority of students spend ... -
Neighbors and the Evolution of the Comparative Advantage of Nations: Evidence of International Knowledge Diffusion?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2013-07)The literature on knowledge diffusion shows that it decays strongly with distance. In this paper we document that the probability that a product is added to a country’s export basket is, on average, 65% larger if a neighboring ... -
Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2012-08)We use a unique data-set from Indonesia on what individuals know about the income distribution in their village to test theories such as Jackson and Rogers (2007) that link information aggregation in networks to the structure ... -
New Avenues for Colombia’s Internationalization: Trade in Tasks
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2021-12)One of the consequences of COVID-19 is the recognition that many tasks can be done from home. But anything that can done remotely, can be done from abroad. Given large salary differences between white collar workers ... -
The New Economic Case for Migration Restrictions
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2016-02)For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration ... -
New Insights About Wage Inequality in Colombia
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2015-12)This paper presents a descriptive analysis of wage inequality in Colombia by cities and industries and attempts to evaluate the impact of the inequality of industries on inequality of cities. Using the 2104 Colombian Social ... -
Norms, Enforcement, and Tax Evasion
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2019-09)This paper studies individual and social motives in tax evasion. We build a simple dynamic model that incorporates these motives and their interaction. The social motives underpin the role of norms and is the source of the ... -
Nutrition Knowledge Versus Schooling in the Demand for Child Micronutrient Status
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2002-08)This study extends the literature on the demand for child height to consider the demand for child micronutrient status. Micronutrient malnutrition is a pervasive and debilitating problem in many developing countries. A ... -
Of Knights and Squires: European Union and the Modernization of Albania
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Off Pitch: Football’s financial integrity weaknesses, and how to strengthen them
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2016-01)Men’s professional football is the biggest sport in the world, producing (by our estimate) US $33 billion a year. All is not well in the sector, however, with regular scandals raising questions about the role of money in ... -
Offshore Investment Funds: Monsters in Emerging Markets?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2001-06)The 1997-98 financial crises in the emerging markets have brought to the foreground the concern about offshore investment funds and their possible role in exacerbating financial market volatility. Offshore investment funds ... -
On Globalization and the Concentration of Talent
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2020-10)We analyze how globalization affects the allocation of talent across competing teams in large matching markets. Assuming a reduced form of globalization as a convex transformation of payoffs, we show that for every economy ... -
On graduation from fiscal procyclicality
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2012-07)In the past, industrial countries have tended to pursue countercyclical or, at worst, acyclical fiscal policy. In sharp contrast, emerging and developing countries have followed procyclical fiscal policy, thus exacerbating ... -
On the Design of Effective Sanctions: The Case of Bans on Exports to Russia
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2022-09)We analyze the effects of bans on exports at the level of 5000 products and show how our results can inform economic sanctions against Russia after its invasion of Ukraine. We begin with characterizing export restrictions ... -
On the effectiveness of exchange rate interventions in emerging markets
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2014-09)We analyze the effectiveness of exchange rate interventions for a panel of 18 emerging market economies during the period 2003-2011. Using an error-correction model approach we find that on average intervention is effective ...