Argentina's 2017 tax reform demonstrates that even well-designed, carefully negotiated fiscal reforms can fail to deliver results if they lack the political credibility needed to convince investors and firms that the changes will endure.

Investments in early education can generate strong long-run human-capital and demographic gains in middle-income countries. New evidence shows that Argentina’s large-scale expansion of pre-primary education in the 1990s substantially increased comple...

A non-contributory pension scheme substantially improved consumption and wellbeing, and reduced the number of over-65s in poverty doing paid work

Proximity to the Inca Road improved subsequent educational, development and labour outcomes, in particular for women.

How can policymakers solve the problem of non-payment of utility bills while still maintaining access to water and sanitation services?

Trust is important in encouraging poor households to hold their savings in bank accounts

Governments can outsource public services and achieve lower prices, without sacrificing quality, if they can ensure that there is enough competition

Evidence from Latin America suggests that solely encouraging unattainable aspirations among poor households does not improve their welfare

Sebastian Galiani on the impact Argentina’s land title policy had on credit access, housing quality, family welfare and economic ideology.