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A Rational Framework for the understanding of the Arab Revolutions
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2012-04)The paper argues that demise of the autocratic bargain in the Arab world, ushered by the uprisings of 2010-11, has been driven by a split in the ruling class. The bargain authoritarians struck with their societies in the ... -
Readings in Sustainability Science and Technology
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2010-12)This Reader is one possible set of materials for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students of sustainability science. It consists of links to 93 articles or book chapters from which appropriate readings and ... -
Reasons for Using Mixed Methods in the Evaluation of Complex Projects
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2019-03)Evaluations of development projects are conducted to assess their net effectiveness and, by extension, to guide decisions regarding the merits of scaling-up successful projects and/or replicating them elsewhere. The key ... -
Recent Claims of China’s Economic Exceptionalism: Reflections Inspired by WTO Accession
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2001-06)The desirability of WTO membership for China depends on whether its economic successes have been the result of its discovery of new institutional forms (e.g. dual track pricing, SOE contracts, and fiscal contracts) that ... -
Reconfiguring Industrial Policy: A Framework with an Application to South Africa
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2008-05)The main purpose of industrial policy is to speed up the process of structural change towards higher productivity activities. This paper builds on our earlier writings to present an overall design for the conduct of ... -
Redemption or Abstinence? Original Sin, Currency Mismatches and Counter-Cyclical Policies in the New Millenium
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2010-02)This paper updates our previous work on the level and evolution of original sin. It shows that while the number of countries that issue local-currency debt in international markets has increased in the past decade, this ... -
Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited: The microdata show that more educated migrants remit more
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2009-12)Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based ... -
Report Cards: The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Markets
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2014-06)We study the impact of providing school and child test scores on subsequent test scores, prices, and enrollment in markets with multiple public and private providers. A randomly selected half of our sample villages (markets) ... -
Report on the Poblacion Flotante of Bogota
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2015-12)In this document we describe the size of the Poblacion Flotante of Bogota (D.C.). The Poblacion Flotante is composed by people who live outside Bogota (D.C.), but who rely on the city for performing their job. We estimate ... -
Reporte de Recomendaciones de Política: Hacia un Loreto más próspero
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2020-12)Loreto es un lugar de contrastes. Es el departamento más grande del Perú, pero se encuentra entre los de menor densidad poblacional. Su capital, Iquitos, está más cerca de los estados fronterizos de Brasil y Colombia que ... -
Responding Adaptively to the COVID-19 Crisis in Indonesia: Insights and Implications from an Indonesian Governance Program
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2023-02)Since March 2020, the novelty, intensity, and scale of the COVID-19 pandemic has placed enormous stress on governments, delivery systems, and social order around the world, especially so in countries with modest public ... -
Rethinking Approaches to Managing Change in Fragile States
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A Ricardian Model with Endogenous Comparative Advantage and Endogenous Trade Policy Regimes
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 1999-04)This paper develops a general equilibrium model with transaction costs and endogenous and exogenous comparative advantages. In the model, the governments are allowed to choose between tariff war, tariff negotiation, and ... -
Rich nations, poor nations: how much can multiple equilibria explain?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2001-09)The idea that income differences between rich and poor nations arise through multiple equilibria or ‘poverty traps’ is as intuitive as it is difficult to verify. In this paper, we explore the empirical relevance of such ... -
The Right Fit for the Wrong Reasons: Real Business Cycle in an Oil-Dependent Economy
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2015-09)Venezuela is an oil-dependent economy subject to large exogenous shocks, with a rigid labor market. These features go straight at the heart of two weaknesses of real business cycle (RBC) theory widely reported in the ... -
The Rise and Fall of the Indonesian Economy
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2003-06)The Indonesia crisis was particularly severe. What began as an economic crisis quickly evolved in to a political crisis. Most analysts failed to recognize the growing weaknesses of the economy and were caught by surprise. ... -
The risks to education systems from design mismatch and global isomorphism
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2014-02)The incredibly low levels of learning and the generally dysfunctional public sector schooling systems in many (though not all) developing countries are the result of a capability trap (Pritchett et al. 2010). Two phenomena ... -
A Roadmap for Investment Promotion and Export Diversification: The Case for Jordan
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2020-03)Jordan faces a number of pressing economic challenges: low growth, high unemployment, rising debt levels, and continued vulnerability to regional shocks. After a decade of fast economic growth, the economy decelerated with ... -
The Role of the Diaspora in the Internationalization of the Colombian Economy
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2021-05)We studied the geography as well as the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of 1.7 million members of the global Colombian diaspora (34% of the total estimated Colombian diaspora) using census and survey data ... -
SACU Tariff Policies: Where Should They Go From Here?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2008-05)This paper characterizes the current South African Customs Union (SACU) tariff structure, considers its rationale, proposes and evaluates some alternatives for reform. While considerable progress was made earlier in ...