Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Keyword "International Development"

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    • Building New Agricultural Universities in Africa 

      Juma, Calestous (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)
      There is an urgent need to create a new generation of innovation-oriented agricultural that efficiently bring together agricultural research, training, commercialization, and extension. This paper calls for upgrading the ...

    • Corruption 

      Banerjee, Abhijit; Hanna, Rema N.; Mullainathan, Sendhil (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)
      In this paper, we provide a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies. The standard way to model corruption is as an example of moral hazard, which then leads to a focus on better monitoring and stricter ...

    • The Dynamics of Nestedness Predicts the Evolution of Industrial Ecosystems 

      Bustos, Sebastián; Gomez, Charles; Hausmann, Ricardo; Hidalgo, César A. (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      In economic systems, the mix of products that countries make or export has been shown to be a strong leading indicator of economic growth. Hence, methods to characterize and predict the structure of the network connecting ...

    • Empirical Confirmation of Creative Destruction from World Trade Data 

      Klimek, Peter; Hausmann, Ricardo; Thurner, Stefan (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)
      We show that world trade network datasets contain empirical evidence that the dynamics of innovation in the world economy follows indeed the concept of creative destruction, as proposed by J.A. Schumpeter more than half a ...

    • Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India 

      Greenstone, Michael; Hanna, Rema N. (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
      Using the most comprehensive data file ever compiled on air pollution, water pollution, environmental regulations, and infant mortality from a developing country, the paper examines the effectiveness of India’s environmental ...

    • International Knowledge Diffusion and the Comparative Advantage of Nations 

      Bahar, Dany; Hausmann, Ricardo; Hidalgo, Cesar A (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)
      In this paper we document that the probability that a product is added to a country’s export basket is, on average, 65% larger if a neighboring country is a successful exporter of that same product. We interpret our result ...

    • Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from US States 

      Campante, Filipe Robin; Do, Quoc-Anh (American Economic Association, 2014)
      We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in line with the view that this isolation reduces accountability. We then provide direct evidence that the ...

    • Oversight is a Many-Splendored Thing: Choice and Proportionality in Regulating and Supervising Microfinance Institutions 

      Rosengard, Jay K. (World Scientific Publishing, 2011)
      The Handbook of Microfinance showcases an expansive collection of works from leading academics and field practitioners. In an attempt to understand the enormous gap between the limited number of clients that are currently ...

    • Reforming Public Financial Management in Africa 

      Peterson, Stephen Bovard (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
      Successful public sector reform is rare in Africa. Over twelve years, Ethiopia transformed its public financial management (PFM) to international standards and now has the third best system in Africa that is managing the ...

    • The Tax Everyone Loves to Hate: Principle of Property Tax Reform 

      Rosengard, Jay K. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)
      The dilemma is real and profound: most countries have a property tax, but few of their citizens like the tax. The property tax is the tax everyone loves to hate. Countries can seldom live with the tax as initially designed, ...