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A proposal for a new universal development commitmentMost developed countries have accepted, in principle at least, the 50‐year‐old commitment of contributing 0.7 per cent of gross national income to supporting the development of developing countries...
Global inequality Poverty alleviation GrowthResearch Brief

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How the cases you choose affect the answers you get, revisitedExternal validity is a major challenge for experimental research...
Experiments Experimental design Political scienceWorking Paper
A proposal for a new universal development commitmentMost Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries have accepted, in principle at least, the 50-year-old commitment of contributing 0.7 per cent of gross national income to supporting the development of countries in the Global Sout...
Global inequality Poverty alleviation GrowthBook Chapter
Social assistance, electoral competition, and political branding in MalawiFrom the book: The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa
Elections Political branding Social protectionPolicy Brief
Can legal empowerment help to address ethnic exclusion?‘Legal empowerment’ is defined as a process of systemic change through which the poor and excluded become able to use the law to protect and advance their rights and interests as citizens and economic actors...
Legal empowerment Group-based inequality Property rightsWorking Paper
Trade tax reforms and poverty in developing countries: Why do some countries benefit and others lose?This paper studies the relationship between trade tax and domestic tax reforms and poverty in developing countries, and explores whether the role of public goods provision matters in this relationship...
Common factor models Government spending policy TaxationPolicy Brief
Learning from a half-century of economic development in AsiaWhen Gunnar Myrdal published his magnum opus, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations , in 1968, he was deeply pessimistic about the development prospects in Asia...
Development Economics Asia Industrial policyJournal Special Issue
Legal Empowerment and Group-Based InequalityThe articles in the forthcoming special issue are already available online on full open access. The special issue will be officially published in March 2019, vol. 55, issue 3...
Legal empowerment Group-based inequality Property rightsWorking Paper
Welfare dynamics in India over a quarter-century: Poverty, vulnerability, and mobility, 1987–2012We analyse the Indian National Sample Survey data spanning the period 1987/88–2011/12 to uncover patterns of transition into and out of different classes of consumption distribution...
Intragenerational mobility Welfare dynamics ImputationWorking Paper
Social protection, electoral competition, and political branding in MalawiCompetitive elections in many parts of Africa generate powerful incentives to presidential candidates (and to a lesser extent political parties) to brand themselves in ways that transcend regional or ethnic loyalties...
Elections Political branding Social protection