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Community-based Conservation and Leadership: Frameworks for Analyzing the Equator Initiative
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2004-11)Reconciling human development requirements with the need to sustain healthy ecosystems is a challenge that has spurred debate across scales from local community management organizations to global decisionmaking bodies. ... -
A Comparison of Product Price Targeting and Other Monetary Anchor Options, for Commodity Exporters in Latin America
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2011-11)Seven possible nominal variables are considered as candidates to be the anchor or target for monetary policy. The context is countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), which tend to be price takers on world markets, ... -
Competition and Productivity Growth in South Africa
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2006-08)Using three different panel data sets, the authors show: (i) that mark-ups are significantly higher in South African manufacturing industries than they are in corresponding industries worldwide; (ii) that competition policy ... -
Conflicts Over Land and Threats to Customary Tenure in Africa Today
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2012-09)Issues swirling around land across Africa have never been so central to key social and political-economic dynamics as they are at the present time. The first part of the paper briefly reviews the construction of customary ... -
The Connectivity Trap: Stuck between the Forest and Shared Prosperity in the Colombian Amazon
(CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper Series, 2023-02)The Colombian Amazon faces the dual challenge of low economic growth and high deforestation. High rates of deforestation in Colombia have led to a perceived trade-off between economic development and protecting the forest. ... -
Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing Career Civil Service Systems in Latin America
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2010-10)Patronage-the discretionary allocation of public sector jobs-continues to be a dominant way government is staffed in most Latin American countries and it is proving resistant to the imprecations of public sector reformers. ... -
Consumption Smoothing and Household Responses: Evidence from Random Exogenous Health Shocks
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2008-01)Endogeneity in the health-wealth relationship is one of the biggest challenges in studying the causal effect of health on household consumption, wealth and labor responses. Using a novel study design, I present new evidence ... -
Contraception as Development? New Evidence from Family Planning in Colombia
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2005-05)There has been considerable debate in the last decade about whether or not family planning programs in developing countries reduce fertility or improve socio-economic outcomes. Despite suggestive associations, disagreement ... -
Contractionary Currency Crashes In Developing Countries
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2005-02)To update a famous old statistic: a political leader in a developing country is twice as likely to lose office in the 6 months following a currency crash as otherwise. This difference, which is highly significant statistically, ... -
Converge and European Value Chains: How Deep Integration Can Reignite Convergence in the EU
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2019-09)Convergence, the process by which poorer countries ‘catch-up’ to rich ones in terms of real incomes, is at the core of the promise of the European Union and the Eurozone. It was enshrined in the founding treaty of the EU ... -
Corruption and Composition of Foreign Direct Investment: Firm-Level Evidence
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2001-02)This paper studies the impact of corruption in a host country on foreign investor’s preference for a joint venture versus a wholly-owned subsidiary. There is a basic tradeoff in using local partners. On the one hand, ... -
The Cost of Holding Foreign Exchange Reserves
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2019-05)Recent studies that have emphasized the costs of accumulating reserves for self-insurance purposes have overlooked two potentially important side-effects. First, the impact of the resulting lower spreads on the service ... -
Countering Misinformation Via WhatsApp: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Zimbabwe
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2020-05)We examine how information from trusted social media sources can shape knowledge and behavior when misinformation and mistrust are widespread. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe, we partnered with a trusted ... -
Country Diversification, Product Ubiquity, and Economic Divergence
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2010-10)Countries differ markedly in the diversification of their exports. Products differ in the number of countries that export them, which we define as their ubiquity. We document a new stylized fact in the global pattern of ... -
Coworker Complementarity
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2017-01)How important is working with people who complement one's skills? Using administrative data that record which of 491 educational tracks each worker in Sweden absolved, I quantify the educational tracks among coworkers ... -
Creative Destruction or Idiot Winds: Schumpeterian Theory Meets the Educational Sector in Developing Countries
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Crime, Justice, and Growth in South Africa: Toward a Plausible Contribution from Criminal Justice to Economic Growth
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2006-08)Crime in South Africa is high and widely believed to restrain investment. Nevertheless, both the mechanisms through which crime constrains growth and the actions that might be taken to loosen its grip are poorly understood. ... -
Crony Capitalism in Egypt
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2013-08)The paper studies the nature and extent of Egyptian "crony" capitalism by comparing the corporate performance and the stock market valuation of politically connected and unconnected firms, before and after the 2011 popular ... -
Currency Crises: Is Central America Different?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 1999-09)In a recent paper we analyzed the determinants of currency crises in a sample of 30 high and middle income countries (Esquivel and Larraín, 1998). In this work we focus on Central America and analyze whether the determinants ... -
Cutting Putin’s Energy Rent: ‘Smart Sanctioning’ Russian Oil and Gas
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2022-04)Following the Russian aggression against Ukraine, major sanctions have been imposed by Western countries, most notably with the aim of limiting Russia’s access to hard international currency. However, Russia remains the ...