Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Keyword "DEV - International Development"
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On Global Currencies
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2009)I approach the state of global currency issues by identifying eight concepts that I see as having recently “peaked” and eight more that I see as currently rising in relevance. Those that I see as having already seen their ... -
On Graduation from Fiscal Procyclicality
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)In the past, industrial countries have tended to pursue countercyclical or, at worst, acyclical fiscal policy. In sharp contrast, emerging and developing countries have followed procyclical fiscal policy, thus exacerbating ... -
Over-optimism in Forecasts by Official Budget Agencies and its Implications
(Oxford University Press, 2011)The paper studies forecasts of real growth rates and budget balances made by official government agencies among 33 countries. In general, the forecasts are found: (i) to have a positive average bias, (ii) to be more biased ... -
The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers Across the US Border
(2009)We estimate the “place premium”—the wage gain that accrues to foreign workers who arrive to work in the United States. First, we estimate the predicted, purchasing-power adjusted wages of people inside and outside the ... -
Politically Feasible Emission Target Formulas to Attain 460 ppm CO2 Concentrations
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)A new climate change treaty must plug three gaps: the absence of emission targets extending far into the future, the absence of participation by the United States, China, and other developing countries, and the absence of ... -
Politically Feasible Emissions Targets to Attain 460 ppm CO2 Concentrations
(Oxford University Press, 2012)A new climate change treaty must address three current gaps: the absence of emissions targets extending far into the future; the absence of participation by the United States, China, and other developing countries; and the ... -
Reflections on the Jesuit Mission to China
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)With the explosive growth of transnational dealings, professionals in developed countries have expanding opportunities to spread their particular ways of doing things around the world. However, missionary work, whether ... -
Rethinking the Millennium Development Goals for Africa
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)The global economy and especially its poorest members, face a perfect storm. The crisis has been created by a Global LIE: leverage that is unfathomable, institutions that are discredited, and, experts who are uncertain ... -
Sanctions, Benefits, and Rights: Three Faces of Accountability
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)As countries throughout the world democratize and decentralize, citizen participation in public life should increase. In this paper, I suggest that democratic participation in local government is enhanced when citizens can ... -
“Schooling Can’t Buy Me Love”: Marriage, Work, and the Gender Education Gap in Latin America
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)In this paper we establish six stylized facts related to marriage and work in Latin America and present a simple model to account for them. First, skilled women are less likely to be married than unskilled women. Second, ... -
Screening in New Credit Markets: Can Individual Lenders Infer Borrower Creditworthiness in Peer-to-Peer Lending?
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2009)The current banking crisis highlights the challenges faced in the traditional lending model, particularly in terms of screening smaller borrowers. The recent growth in online peer-to-peer lending marketplaces offers ... -
Social Policy in Development: Coherence and Cooperation in the Real World
(School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)Ideas about social policy and its role in development have shifted over time, signaling the difficulty of finding clarity in approaches to social investment, poverty alleviation, and equity. In consequence, research and ... -
A Solution to Overoptimistic Forecasts and Fiscal Procyclicality: The Structural Budget Institutions Pioneered by Chile
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)Historically, many countries have suffered a pattern of procyclical fiscal policy: spending too much in booms and then forced to cut back in recessions, thereby exacerbating the business cycle. This problem has especially ... -
Sustainable Cooperation in Global Climate Policy: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, 2012)We explore a framework that could be used to assign quantitative allocations of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), across all countries, one budget period at a time, as envisioned at the December 2011 negotiations in ... -
Three Key Elements of Post-2012 International Climate Policy Architecture
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)We describe three essential elements of an effective post-2012 international global climate policy architecture: a means to ensure that key industrialized and developing nations are involved in differentiated but meaningful ... -
The Unintended Consequences of Successful Resource Mobilization: Financing Development in Vietnam
(United Nations Development Programme and the Fulbright Economics Teaching Program, 2011)The total amount of development finance generated by Vietnam has been exceptionally high from all significant sources using all standard measures of comparison. However, there are many potential unintended consequences of ... -
Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University., 2012-05-08)It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries through the adoption of ... -
Why it Worked: Critical Success Factors of a Financial Reform Project in Africa
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)Little is written about the critical success factors that make or break a project implementing a public financial management reform in Africa. Based on the twelve year experience of Harvard’s DSA project which transformed ...