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WORKING PAPERS
July 20, 2009
Why do so many businesses choose to remain informal? Vijaya Ramachandran and co-authors discover that the answer is more nuanced than often believed. In East Africa, for instance, the difference in productivity between formal and informal firms is often indistinguishable, while in Southern Africa pr...
Jun
24
2009
2:00—3:30 PM
June 12, 2009
Good governance and anticorruption are central to the theories and practices of global development today. They are often considered to be the keys to holding inefficient governments accountable for their actions. In this discussion, Professor Catherine Weaver looks at the history of the Bank's gov...
Jun
10
2009
2:00—3:30 PM
June 02, 2009
Among the many foreign policy issues confronted by the Obama
administration are these: major transnational threats that pose new
challenges to U.S. foreign policy; and a shifting balance of power that
create many new seats at the table. Just as cooperation with the
rising powers has been a k...