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Blog Post
May 17, 2024
It was a long, hard slog, and there have been a number of setbacks (not least days on end of merciless grey skies and rain), but London has finally settled into a real, actual summer. That means two things: first, everyone is in a ridiculously good mood. We get three weeks of sunshine a year, and it...
Blog Post
May 16, 2024
Development agencies are spending unprecedented levels of development finance on climate-related objectives—but how much impact is that finance having? As negotiations towards a new climate finance target progress at the UN, we hope to add to the number of voices urging that the new goal encompasses...
Blog Post
May 10, 2024
It was hit-and-miss for a while—there were a good few weeks when I thought the UK would just completely forego spring and summer and transition directly from winter into autumn—but there are tentative signs of summer in London. London in the summer is a bit like a bird that spends 11 months of the y...
Blog Post
May 10, 2024
While there was no great fanfare coming out of the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings, a closer look at the official statements reveals simmering tensions between major constituencies over the execution of the World Bank’s new “Livable Planet” agenda. These tensions were fueled by debates over the alloc...
Blog Post
May 09, 2024
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are increasingly supporting their beneficiary member countries to improve outcomes for economic migrants and refugees. Every year, they provide billions of dollars in grants and loans, as well as technical assistance, policy dialogue, and knowledge exchanges. A ...
POLICY PAPERS
May 09, 2024
Economic migrants and refugees can bring both benefits and costs to their hosting countries. If well-integrated, they can support themselves, their families, and their hosting countries as producers and consumers. Both economic migration and forced displacement are therefore integrally linked with d...
Blog Post
May 03, 2024
One of the things I missed last week was Jishnu Das’s excellent, heartfelt piece about the state of development economics. But he’s not talking about causal identification or taking potshots in the war on randomization, but about the deeper values that he suggests have gone missing from the discipli...
Blog Post
May 01, 2024
At the core of African food insecurity are the continent’s notoriously low crop yields—the amount of produce farmers harvest relative to the area of land they farm. And one of the main reasons for low yield compared to other regions is that African countries, on average, use far less fertilizer to b...
Blog Post
April 26, 2024
The links are back after a two-and-a-half week break in Argentina, and to be honest, my brain is still not fully re-engaged. Argentina is a hard place to be an economist: announcing your profession begets many questions, some of them hostile, and all of them difficult. It’s an amazing place: friendl...
WORKING PAPERS
April 23, 2024
This paper explores the potential implications of a declining absolute labor force on economic outcomes. It explores key macroeconomic variables during periods of negative and positive prime age (15-65) population growth (PAPG). These variables include 10-year bond yields, consumer price indices, fe...