All articles
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What a year! From the desk of the Editor-in-Chief
Tavneet Suri looks at VoxDev and broader development highlights of 2019
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Can the world’s poor afford a healthy diet?
New studies measure how many people cannot afford a healthy diet, establishing a useful benchmark for understanding global food systems and poverty
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The power of biometric identification for development
The technology can reduce leakages in programmes, increase access to public programmes and market services, and improve the delivery of healthcare
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Skills and personality matter, but how do we capture them?
Data from developing country settings highlight the risk of misinterpreting non-cognitive skills and personality using existing measures
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The return to protectionism
The aggregate annual loss to US consumers from higher import prices as a result of the trade war with China could be as much as $68.8 billion
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‘Second-best’ Bus Rapid Transit and traffic congestion in developing countries: Lessons from TransJakarta
Evidence from Indonesia’s TransJakarta Bus Rapid Transit suggests that low-cost BRT systems can actually worsen traffic congestion
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The challenges of universal health insurance in Indonesia
A large-scale randomised experiment reveals that temporary health insurance subsidies can improve take-up at no additional cost to the government
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Does population growth cause conflict?
Population surges tend to cause conflict and competition for resources if unaccompanied by productivity growth and unmediated by strong institutions
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Uncongested mobility in urban India
Variation in transportation performance is driven by uncongested mobility due to everyday road obstructions, not conventional traffic congestion