Economic reform programs designed by the International Monetary Fund and the World
Bank—so-called 'structural adjustment programs'—have formed one of the most influential …

Structural adjustment programmes of international financial institutions have typically set the
fiscal parameters within which health policies operate in developing countries. Yet, we …

This accessible volume shines a light on how autocracy really works by providing basic facts
about how post-World War II dictatorships achieve, retain, and lose power. The authors …

How does a large unconditional increase in salary affect the performance of incumbent
employees in the public sector? We present experimental evidence on this question in the …

In recent years, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has re-emerged as a central actor in
global economic governance. Its rhetoric and policies suggest that the organization has …

Energy subsidies have wide-ranging economic consequences. Although they are aimed at
protecting consumers, subsidies aggravate fiscal imbalances, crowd out priority public …

The fourth edition of The Process of Economic Development offers a thorough and up-to-
date treatment of development economics. This landmark text will continue to be an …

Following calls for a more disaggregated approach to studying the consequences of IMF
programs, scholars have developed new datasets of IMF-mandated policy reforms, or …

An account of the significant though gradual, uneven, disconnected, ad hoc, and pragmatic
innovations in global financial governance and developmental finance induced by the …

This article highlights an important yet insufficiently understood international-level
determinant of inequality in the developing world: structural adjustment programs by the …