Publications

This paper examines the potential opportunities and risks of using sovereign wealth funds (SWF) to provide financing for domestic investments. In particular, it focuses on domestic market investments ...chevron_right

This paper explores how African states can effectively translate their natural resource endowments into sustainable development. More specifically, it explores the possibility of the distribution of r...chevron_right

This paper measures how Mexico’s 2008–2011 explosion in violent crime has affected the values of homes - the most important asset for most Mexican families. The authors show that violent crime has ca...chevron_right

This paper examines possible reasons why macroeconomic studies have had difficulty detecting the effect that recent rises in measured remittances by migrant workers have on economic growth. The author...chevron_right

This paper examines how research on migration and development has changed since the 1970s. The authors argue that there have been two major changes, the first being that research in this area has sign...chevron_right

This brief reviews the role and impact of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in addressing the challenges and threats to global agricultural development and food security. The author also pro...chevron_right

This paper examines some of the policy proposals put forth to address the detrimental effects the emigration of skilled workers has had on development in their country of origin. It then proposes a ne...chevron_right

This paper examines the efficiency, equity and ethics of various policy tools that seek to restrict the emigration of skilled workers from developing countries. These include taxes on skilled migratio...chevron_right

This paper identifies and discusses the conditions needed for achieving strong and stable capital markets in emerging economies, which it says are illiquid and underdeveloped. The author groups these ...chevron_right

This note presents an assessment of the effectiveness of performance-based payments by Norway for forest conservation in Guyana (2009-2014). It first lists the main successes of this initiative, inclu...chevron_right

This paper examines how the international community balances its goals for responding to climate change with increasing global access to energy services. To do this, the authors look at how the intern...chevron_right

This paper discusses the ownership and financial structure and related governance arrangements of the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The author argues that the IDB is farthe...chevron_right

This paper examines evidence from 117 econometric studies of deforestation from 1996 to 2013 to examine what drives deforestation and what prevents it. From their analysis, the authors find that fores...chevron_right

This paper documents the construction of a data set on global poverty and inequality through a web-scraping exercise of the World Bank’s PovcalNet database. PovcalNet attempts to bring together all av...chevron_right

This paper compares how the United States and Brazil redistribute wealth through social spending and taxes. In particular, the authors take into consideration direct cash and food transfers, targeted ...chevron_right