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Panama beyond the Canal: Using Technological Proximities to Identify Opportunities for Productive Diversification
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2017-03)The economy of Panama has thrived for more than a decade, based on a modern service sector on the activities surrounding the Canal. Panama has inserted its economy into global value chains, providing competitive services ... -
Paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health: Options for TRIPS Council
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2002-03)This Working Paper is organized in the following parts. We first analyze Paragraph 6 and the Doha Declaration in detail, to appreciate accurately the mandate created by the WTO Ministerial. We then consider two current ... -
Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2007-07)This paper examines how increased voter ethnicization, defined as a greater preference for the party representing one's ethnic group, affects politician quality. If politics is characterized by incomplete policy commitment, ... -
The Path to Labor Formality: Urban Agglomeration and the Emergence of Complex Industries
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2016-10)Labor informality, associated with low productivity and lack of access to social security services, dogs developing countries around the world. Rates of labor (in)formality, however, vary widely within countries. This paper ... -
Pattern of Trade and Economic Development in the Model of Monopolistic Competition
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 1999-04)The paper introduces differences in production and transaction conditions between countries into the model of monopolistic competition to investigate the interplay between trade policies and development strategies. It ... -
Piloto de Crecimiento Inclusivo en comunidades indígenas de Chiapas (Cruztón, Chamula)
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Place-specific Determinants of Income Gaps: New Sub-National Evidence from Chiapas, Mexico
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2020-02)The literature on income gaps between Chiapas and the rest of Mexico revolves around individual factors, such as education and ethnicity. Yet, twenty years after the Zapatista rebellion, the schooling gap between Chiapas ... -
Pobreza, cobertura de las Misiones y necesidades de protección social para la reforma económica de Venezuela
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Policy Decisions and Evidence Use among Civil Servants: A Group Decision Experiment in Pakistan
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2020-04)In a lab-in-field experiment with elite civil servants in Pakistan, we investigate whether groups outperform individuals in a two-staged task which requires effective use of data and evidence. We also study how efficiently ... -
Political Articulation and Accountability in Decentralization: Theory and Evidence from India
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2007-11)New institutions created through decentralization policies around the world, notwithstanding the rhetoric, are often lacking in substantive democratic content. New policies for decentralized natural resource management ... -
Political Conditions and Currency Crises: Empirical Regularities in Emerging Markets
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2001-10)This paper demonstrates the impact of structural political conditions on the likelihood of currency crises in emerging markets. Controlling for a standard and parsimonious set of macroeconomic variables, I find that: ... -
Political Insecurity and State Failure in Contemporary Africa
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2005-01)Noting data that suggests that Africa oversupplies state failure, the paper probes the sources of political insecurity in the continent. It explores the logic that underlies an equilibrium in which governments employ force ... -
Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Africa
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2003-03)In this paper we (a) review the literature on the so-called "African dummy"; (b) describe the system GMM method of estimation, by which Hoeffler (2002) shows the "Africa dummy" to be an artifact of the application of ... -
Political Institutions and Economic Policies: Lessons from Africa
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2002-09)Scholars, activists, and policy makers have argued that the route to economic growth in Africa runs through political reform. In particular, they prescribe electoral accountability as a step toward economic reform, seeing ... -
Political Pluralism Versus Political Monopoly: Effects of Political Monopoly of the Ruling Elite on the Extent of the Market, Income Distribution, and Development
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2001-06)This paper develops a general equilibrium model to simultaneously endogenize the level of division of labor, the extent of the market, the degree of inequality of income distribution, and aggregate productivity. It shows ... -
Political Reform
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2005-01)In the last decade of the 20th Century, Africa joined the Third Wave of Democratization. Military regimes gave way to civilian governments, and no- and single-party systems to competitive political systems. The paper ... -
Politically Feasible Emissions Targets to Attain 460 ppm CO2 Concentrations
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2011-10)A new climate change treaty must address three current gaps: the absence of emissions targets extending far into the future, the absence of participation by the United States, China, and other developing countries, and the ... -
The Politics and Incentives of Legal Transplantation
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2000-04)The last ten years have seen an exponential increase in the volume of legal transplantation, the process by which laws and legal institutions developed in one country are then adopted by another. Although there is a small ... -
Population and Environment
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2000-07)The past fifty years have witnessed two simultaneous and accelerating trends: an explosive growth in population and a steep increase in resource depletion and environmental degradation. These trends have fueled the debate ... -
The Power of Transparency: Information, Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2015-02)Can governments improve aid programs by providing information to beneficiaries? In our model, information can change how much aid citizens receive as they bargain with local officials who implement national programs. In a ...