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When rising food prices fuel state violence
Rising crop prices usually quiet conflict, as labourers choose farming over fighting. In Myanmar, rising rice prices instead fuelled state-led violence against civilians. Our findings challenge narratives that frame such atrocities as a reaction to i...
Rethinking the agricultural productivity gap: Informality matters
After adjusting for labour input differences, the apparent agricultural productivity gap in India is largely a formal-informal sector divide. Differences in education and labour hours fully explain the productivity gap between informal sector and agr...
Technology diffusion: The role of venture capital, universities and China
Josh Lerner discusses why there is a gap between innovation and impact, and how policymakers can speed up technological diffusion.
Can providing information reduce risky migration?
In Guinea, providing information about the risks of migration journeys corrects overly optimistic beliefs and significantly reduces irregular migration intentions and behaviour among young people, without discouraging regular migration.
Transport policy for economic development
Transport policy in developing countries requires context-specific solutions grounded in evidence, as slow travel speeds, informal systems, gendered safety concerns, and institutional constraints mean that common fixes like congestion charging or BRT...
Ray of hope? The rise of solar energy in China
China’s solar subsidies triggered innovation and learning-by-doing that dramatically lowered global solar costs while generating domestic economic gains large enough to outweigh the subsidy costs, showing that green industrial policy can simultaneous...
