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A Half-Century of Development
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2005-03)Development as a global policy objective dates from the 1940s. Relative to expectations then, the world economy performed outstandingly well during the second half of the 20th century. Worldwide growth in average per capita ... -
The Hardships of Long Distance Relationships: Time Zone Proximity and Knowledge Transmission within Multinational Firms
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2019-08)Using a unique dataset on worldwide multinational corporations with precise location of headquarters and affiliates, I present evidence of a trade-off between distance to the headquarters and the knowledge intensity of the ... -
Has Sweden injected realism into public financial management reforms in partner countries?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2015-09)Public financial management (PFM) reform is a common part of many development initiatives. It generally involves promoting "good practices" in developing countries, embedded in frameworks like the Public Expenditure and ... -
Hepatitis B and the Case of the Missing Women
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2005-09)In many Asian countries the ratio of male to female population is higher than in the West - as high as 1.07 in China and India, and even higher in Pakistan. A number of authors (most notably Sen, 1992) have suggested that ... -
Horrible Trade-offs in a Pandemic: Lockdowns, Transfers, Fiscal Space, and Compliance
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2020-07)In this paper, we develop a heterogeneous agent general equilibrium framework to analyze optimal joint policies of a lockdown and transfer payments in times of a pandemic. In our model, the effectiveness of a lockdown in ... -
Housing in Wyoming: Constraints and Solutions
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2023-04)Executive Summary Quantitative evidence supports the contention that Wyoming’s housing market is constrained, to a greater degree than many other parts of the US. Prices are persistently above expectations given economic ... -
How and where do criminals operate? Using Google to track Mexican drug trafficking organizations
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2012-08)We develop a tool that uses Web content to obtain quantitative information about the mobility and modus operandi of criminal groups, data that would otherwise require the operation of large scale, expensive intelligence ... -
How Business is Done and the 'Doing Business' Indicators: The Investment Climate when Firms have Climate Control
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2010-11)"Doing Business" (DB) provides measures of the time and costs associated with fully complying with an array of business regulations. Enterprise Surveys (ES) ask a wide range of firms about their actual experiences in doing ... -
How Cities Erode Gender Inequality: A New Theory and Evidence from Cambodia
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2019-06)Support for gender equality has risen, globally. Analyses of this trend focus on individual and/or country-level characteristics. But this overlooks sub-national variation. Citydwellers are more likely to support gender ... -
How do Governments get Great?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2013-06)Governments can play great roles in their countries, regions, and cities; facilitating or leading the resolution of festering problems and opening new pathways for progress. Examples are more numerous than one might imagine ... -
How ETFs Amplify the Global Financial Cycle in Emerging Markets
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2019-05)Since the early 2000s exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have grown to become an important in- vestment vehicle worldwide. In this paper, we study how their growth affects the sensitivity of international capital flows to the ... -
How Far Have Public Financial Management Reforms Come in Africa?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2010-10)This paper asks how strong African Public Financial Management (PFM) has become, after a decade and more of reform. How well do African PFM systems in place now facilitate effective public financial management? Where are ... -
How Good Politics Results in Bad Policy: The Case of Biofuel Mandates
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2010-09)Biofuels have become big policy and big business. Government targets, mandates, and blending quotas have created a growing demand for biofuels. Some say that the U.S. biofuels industry was created by government policies. ... -
How should Uganda grow?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2014-01)Income per capita in Uganda has doubled in the last 20 years. This remarkable performance has been buoyed by significant aid flows and large external imbalances. Economic growth has been concentrated in non-tradable ... -
How to Cope with Volatile Commodity Export Prices: Four Proposals
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 201)Countries that specialize in commodities have in recent years been hit by high volatility in world prices for their exports. This paper suggests four ways that commodity-exporters can make themselves less vulnerable. (1) ... -
Identifying Aggregate Supply and Demand Shocks in South Africa
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2008-05)This paper uses a structural VAR methodology to identify aggregate demand and supply shocks to real output for the South African economy. Demand shocks, in turn, are separated into fiscal and monetary shocks. The model is ... -
The Illusion of Sustainability
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2004-11)Rather than provide development assistance indefinitely, foreign aid donors increasingly seek to help communities sustainably provide local public goods themselves. We examine various strategies for sustainably fighting ... -
The Impact of a Rise in Expected Income on Child Labor: Evidence from Coca Production in Colombia
Can households' beliefs about future income shocks affect child labor? This paper examines whether the three-year gap between the announcement (in 2014) and the start (in 2017) of the Illicit Crop Substitution Program ... -
The Impact of G-3 Exchange Rate Volatility on Developing Countries
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2002-02)This paper describes G-3 exchange rate volatility and evaluates its impact on developing countries. The paper presents empirical evidence showing that G-3 exchange rate volatility has a robust and significantly negative ... -
The Impact of Intranational Trade Barriers on Exports: Evidence from a Nationwide VAT Rebate Reform in China
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2019-12)It is well known that various forms of non-tariff trade barriers exist within a country. Empirically, it is difficult to measure these barriers as they can take many forms. We take advantage of a nationwide VAT rebate ...