Proponents and critics alike agree that the policies spawned by the Washington Consensus
have not produced the desired results. The debate now is not over whether the Washington …

Promotion of family planning in countries with high birth rates has the potential to reduce
poverty and hunger and avert 32% of all maternal deaths and nearly 10% of childhood …

Roughly forty years ago, a small group of scientists and policy makers began to realize that
humanity was on a dramatic collision course, as the rapidly growing world economy and …

Examining the value-added link between infrastructure and industrialization is fundamental
to achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 9, which consists of building resilient …

This paper estimates the role of agronomic inputs in cereal yield improvements and the
consequences for countries' processes of structural change. The results suggest a clear role …

In light of Africa's palpable deficit in public infrastructure, we use System GMM to estimate a
model of economic growth augmented by an infrastructure variable, for a panel of 45 Sub …

The standard approach to policy making and advice in economics implicitly or explicitly
ignores politics and political economy and maintains that if possible, any market failure …

Using panel data for a large set of high-income, emerging market, developing, and transition
countries, we find robust evidence that the large output loss from financial crises and some …

This paper focuses on the role of capabilities in economic development. In recent years, the
quality and availability of data on different aspects of development have improved, and this …