Working Paper
Institutions and Asia’s development
The role of institutions in Asian development has been intensely contested since Myrdal’s Asian Drama, with later contributions from institutional economics and developmental state theory. Despite much progress, the dominant approaches do not agree...
Blog
Revenue data like you’ve never seen it before: Introducing the GRD Explorer
by
Kyle McNabb
January 2019
Let’s face it, data is important. It sits at the core of almost everything that we in the development economics research community do. However, the...
Blog
Development programmes, security, and violence reduction: Evidence from an insurgency in India
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Heidi Kaila, Saurabh Singhal, Divya Tuteja
January 2019
Implementing development programmes in conflict-affected areas is crucial for conflict as well as poverty reduction. The big question is how do you...
Working Paper
Diaspora externalities
Migration decisions affect those left-behind in ways that are partly taken into account by market forces (e.g., wage effects on labour markets) and for the most part these can be seen as pure externalities. Diasporas are an example of such an...
Book
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam provides a comprehensive analytic contribution to a crucial topic within development economics. Based on fifteen years of continued data collection and research efforts it brings together nine up-to...