Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Keyword "DEV - International Development"
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The Future of Convergence
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)Novelists have a better track record than economists at foretelling the future. Consider then Gary Shteyngart’s timely comic novel “Super Sad True Love Story” (Random House, 2010), which provides a rather graphic vision ... -
Good Governance: The Inflation of an Idea
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)Good governance has grown rapidly to become a major ingredient in analyses of what’s missing in countries struggling for economic and political development. Intuitively and in research, good governance is a seductive ... -
Governance Indicators Can Make Sense: Under-five Mortality Rates are an Example
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)Governance indicators have come under fire in recent years, especially the World Governance Indicators (WGIs). Critics present these indicators as a-theoretical and biased. Critics of the critics counter that no better ... -
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Examining the Extent and Implications of Low Persistence in Child Learning
(2009)Learning persistence plays a central role in models of skill formation, estimates of education production functions, and evaluations of educational programs. In non-experimental settings, estimated impacts of educational ... -
How Can Commodity Exporters Make Fiscal and Monetary Policy Less Procyclical?
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)Fiscal and monetary policy each has a role to play in mitigating the volatility that stems from the large trade shocks hitting commodity-exporting countries. All too often macroeconomic policy is procyclical, that is, ... -
How Far Have Public Financial Management Reforms Come in Africa?
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)This paper asks how strong African Public Financial Management (PFM) has become, after a decade and more of reform. How well do African PFM systems in place now facilitate effective public financial management? Where are ... -
How Good Politics Results in Bad Policy: The Case of Biofuel Mandates
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)Biofuels have become big policy and big business. Government targets, mandates, and blending quotas have created a growing demand for biofuels. Some say that the U.S. biofuels industry was created by government policies. ... -
If The Banks Are Doing So Well, Why Can’t I Get A Loan? Regulatory Constraints to Financial Inclusion in Indonesia
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)Indonesia’s financial sector has two paradoxes: 1) Indonesia has been a global leader in microfinance for the past 25 years, but access to microfinance services is declining; and 2) Indonesia’s commercial banks are liquid, ... -
Informal Taxation
(American Economic Association, 2011)Informal payments are a frequently overlooked source of local public finance in developing countries. We use microdata from ten countries to establish stylized facts on the magnitude, form, and distributional implications ... -
Is India a Flailing State?: Detours on the Four Lane Highway to Modernization
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2009)India is an emerging global superpower as its rapid growth has transformed its economy and has maintained itself as the world’s largest democracy. But at the same time India lags in many dimensions—its malnutrition rate ... -
Isomorphism and the Limits to African Public Financial Management Reform
(2009)Many reform results fall below expectations in the development arena, especially in the public sector. Do the reforms just need more time to work better, or should we adjust our expectations? In addressing this question, ... -
A Lesson from the South for Fiscal Policy in the US and Other Advanced Countries
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)Two decades ago, many people had drawn a lesson from the 1980s: Japan's variant of capitalism was the best model. Other countries around the world should and would follow it. Japan's admired institutions included relationship ... -
A Lesson From the South for Fiscal Policy in the US and Other Advanced Countries
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)American fiscal policy has been procyclical: Washington wasted the expansion period 2001-2007 by running budget deficits, but by 2011 had come to feel constrained by inherited debt to withdraw fiscal stimulus. Chile has ... -
Making Democratic-Governance Work: The Consequences for Prosperity
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University., 2011)Does democratic governance expand wealth and prosperity? There is no consensus about this issue despite the fact that for more than half a century, rival theories about the regime-growth relationship have been repeatedly ... -
Making Room for China in the World Economy
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Mauritius: African Success Story
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University., 2010)What explains the economic success of Mauritius, a top performer among African countries? How did it develop a manufacturing sector and how has it managed to respond well to new external shocks? This paper draws on the ... -
Monetary Policy in Emerging Markets: A Survey
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)The characteristics that distinguish most developing countries, compared to large industrialized countries, include: greater exposure to supply shocks in general and trade volatility in particular, procyclicality of both ... -
The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)It is striking how often countries with oil or other natural resource wealth have failed to grow more rapidly than those without. This is the phenomenon known as the Natural Resource Curse. The principle is not confined ... -
The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey of Diagnoses and Some Prescriptions
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)Countries with oil, mineral or other natural resource wealth, on average, have failed to show better economic performance than those without, often because of undesirable side effects. This is the phenomenon known as the ... -
A New Era for Justice Sector Reform in Haiti
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)In the months before the January earthquake, Haiti and its criminal justice institutions were the subject of an unprecedented effort by two UN agencies to measure the state of the Rule of Law. Drawing on the results of ...