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Double dividends and mixed blessings: What would the pioneers of development economics make of new trends in developing economies?Today, we see clear trends in developing countries of a potentially troubling ‘new normal’ for economic development. We see tertiarization with rising inequality. We see urbanization without growth...
Structural transformation Economic developmentWorking Paper
The global distribution of routine and non-routine workStudies of the effects of technology and globalization on employment and inequality commonly assume that occupations are identical around the world in the job tasks they require...
de-routinization Economic development global division of labourWorking Paper
The developer’s dilemma: A survey of structural transformation and inequality dynamicsThis paper discusses the ‘developer’s dilemma’—a tension emerging from the fact that developing countries are simultaneously seeking structural transformation and broad-based growth to raise incomes of the poor...
Income inequality Structural transformation Economic developmentWorking Paper
Is there a fiscal resource curse?: Resource rents, fiscal capacity, and political institutions in developing economiesStates’ fiscal capacity plays a pivotal role in developing economies, but it is less clear what its determinants are or what explains cross-country differences. We focus on the impact of natural resources...
state capacity fiscal capacity Resource curseBook Chapter
Development and poverty in sub-Saharan AfricaWhen it comes to reporting on Africa, the international news media has, over time, delivered very mixed messages. Yet there are still many who characterize sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as a region of hunger, economic crisis, and political unrest...
Sub-Saharan Africa Economic development TransformationWorking Paper
Educational mobility in developing countriesThis paper reviews the small but growing literature on intergenerational educational mobility in the developing world...
Educational mobility Developing countries Educational expansionJournal Article
What determines administrative capacity in developing countries?Part of Journal Special Issue Public economics and development action
state capacity Administrative capacity Public finance managementWorking Paper
Social norms as a barrier to women’s employment in developing countriesThis paper discusses cultural barriers to women’s participation and success in the labor market in developing countries...
Culture Institutions Developing countriesJournal Article
What determines administrative capacity in developing countries?This article is currently available for early online view. While it is recognised that effective state institutions are pivotal for economic development, their origins and what explains their cross-country differences are not well understood...
state capacity Administrative capacity Public finance managementJournal Article
Agricultural extension, intra-household allocation and malariaCan agricultural development programs improve health-related outcomes? We exploit a spatial discontinuity in the coverage of a large-scale agricultural extensionprogram in Uganda to causally identify its effects on malaria...
Administrative law Agriculture Economic developmentJournal Article
The Effects of the Value-Added Tax on Revenue and InequalityThis paper examines the impact of the introduction of the value-added tax on inequality and government revenues using newly released macro data...
Economic development Equality and inequality TaxationProject
Clientelist politics and economic development - theories, perspectives and new directions
Theme: Current programme
Clientelism Politics Economic developmentWorking Paper
Empirical challenges comparing inequality across countries: The case of middle-income countries from the LIS databaseThis study presents new empirical results, using microdata from the LIS database, on development patterns in economic inequality for a set of countries that are less covered in the empirical literature, mostly due to the lack of appropriate data...
Economic development Equality Middle-income countriesBook Chapter
Understanding and characterizing the services sector in South Africa: an overviewFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
Services Economic development South AfricaBook Chapter
Career dynamics and gender gaps among employees in the microfinance sectorFrom the book: Towards Gender Equity in Development
gender gaps Job mobility PromotionJournal Article
How does petty corruption affect tax morale in Sub-Saharan Africa?This article is currently available for early online view. Revenues from taxation gain in importance to finance economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa...
Corruption Tax Economic development