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Facilitating learning and discovery-oriented industrial policy in Albania
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2023-03)Industrial policy initiatives demand a lot of knowledge from policymakers. Knowledge is often limited, however, especially when policies emerge from top-down technical experts or outsiders with limited contextual experience. ... -
Factor Adjustments after Deregulation: Panel Evidence from Colombian Plants
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2008-09)We analyze employment and capital adjustments using plant data from the Colombian Annual Manufacturing Survey. We estimate adjustment functions for capital and labor as a non-linear function of the gaps between desired and ... -
Female Labor in Jordan: A Systematic Approach to the Exclusion Puzzle
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2019-10)Women in Jordan are excluded from labor market opportunities at among the highest rates in the world. Previous efforts to explain this outcome have focused on specific, isolated aspects of the problem and have not exploited ... -
Final Recommendations of the International Panel on ASGISA
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2008-05)As part of the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative (ASGI-SA), the National Treasury of the Republic of South Africa convened an international panel of economists through Harvard's Center for International Development. ... -
Financial Institutions, Financial Contagion, and Financial Crises
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 1999-07)This paper endogenizes financial contagion and financial crises from financial institutions. We show that financial crises can emanate from financial institutions which generate soft-budget constraints (SBC). The prevailing ... -
Food for Growth: A Diagnostics of Namibia’s Agriculture Sector
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2023-10)This growth diagnostic report analyzes the economic constraints that explain the underperformance of the agriculture sector in Namibia. Section 1 starts by showing why Namibia’s agricultural challenge is unique when compared ... -
Fool's Gold: On the Impact of Venezuelan Devaluations in Multinational Stock Prices
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2018-06)This paper documents negative cumulative abnormal returns (CARs) to five exchange rate devaluations in Venezuela within the context of stiff exchange controls and large black-market premiums, using daily stock prices for ... -
Forecasting Formal Employment in Cities
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2019-05)Can “full and productive employment for all” be achieved by 2030 as envisaged by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals? This paper assesses the issue for the largest 62 Colombian cities using social security ... -
Foreign Investment in the Andean Countries
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2002-01)This work provides a general picture of the evolution of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the Andean countries. Then, following a brief review of FDI determinants in developing countries, it systematically examines the ... -
Foreign Portfolio Investors before and during a Crisis
(1999-03)Using a unique data set, we study the trading behavior of foreign portfolio investors in Korea before and during the currency crisis. Different categories of investors have significant differences as well as similarities. ... -
The Formation of the Tibetan State Religion: The Geluk School 1419-1642
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2007-12)Monopolistic competition of Tibetan Buddhism by the eleventh-twelfth century allowed for many schools and sects to develop with little differentiation in religious products. The rise of the Ming dynasty (1368-1424) represented ... -
Framing the Fundamental Issues of Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2004-03)This paper frames the fundamental issues of sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa. The paper begins by considering the general problems of development in sub-Saharan Africa and then frames the issues as the maintenance ... -
From Financial Repression to External Distress: The Case of Venezuela
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2015-06)Recent work has supported that there is a connection between domestic debt level and sovereign default on external debt. We examine the potential linkages in a case study of Venezuela from 1984 to 2013. This unique example ... -
From the Unity of Nature to Sustainability Science: Ideas and Practice
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2011-03)The ideas of sustainability science are at least two centuries old; the practice is but a decade. This paper reviews some of those key ideas beginning with Humboldt and the unity of nature, and goes on to discuss just what ... -
Gender Differences in Professional Career Dynamics: New Evidence from a Global Law Firm
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2020-04)We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law firms in the world. The law firm studied is representative of multinational law firms and operates in ... -
A Generation of Italian Economists
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2021)We examine the role of financial aid in shaping the formation of human capital in economics. Specifically, we study the impact of a large merit-based scholarship for graduate studies in affecting individuals’ occupational ... -
Geography, Economic Policy and Regional Development in China
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2001-10)Many studies of regional disparity in China have focused on the preferential policies received by the coastal provinces. We decomposed the location dummies in provincial growth regressions to obtain estimates of the effects ... -
Getting Back on the Curve: South Africa's Manufacturing Challenge
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2022-11)The report aims to inform the government’s strategic approach towards manufacturing by analyzing the potential and limits for job creation within the sector. To meet that goal, we analyze the sector’s main features and ... -
Getting Real about Unknowns in Complex Policy Work
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2022-02)As with all public policy work, education policies are demanding. Policy workers need to ‘know’ a lot—about the problems they are addressing, the people who need to be engaged, the promises they can make in response, the ... -
Getting the Ball Rolling: Basis for Assessing the Sports Economy
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2016-07)Data on the sports economy is often difficult to interpret, far from transparent, or simply unavailable. Data fraught with weaknesses causes observers of the sports economy to account for the sector differently, rendering ...