Can electricity access help solve poverty in Kenya? Ensuring sufficient investment to establish reliable access to comprehensive basic services, beyond electricity, is needed for impacts to be achieved Energy & Environment Kenneth Lee Edward Miguel Catherine Wolfram Published 29.07.19
Ending global poverty: Why money is not enough How can we combat the increasing trend of extreme poverty not being confined to low-income countries, but also affecting middle-income ones? Macroeconomics & Growth Published 07.06.19
The Mandarin model of growth What is the Mandarin model and how has it affected China's economic and financial stability? Institutions & Political Economy Wei Xiong Published 22.03.19
Bridging the gap: Reducing rural isolation with new infrastructure New bridges generated a 19% internal rate of return by mitigating the loss of wage income due to floods and inducing spillovers on farm productivity Infrastructure Wyatt Brooks Kevin Donovan Published 07.09.18
Barriers to growth Tony Addison, Chief Economist and Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER, discusses the key barriers to growth and how to overcome them. Macroeconomics & Growth Tony Addison Published 10.04.18
The economics of clearing land mines How does the clearance of land mines impact economic activity in Mozambique? Elias Papaioannou sheds some insight using geographical and micro-level economic data. Infrastructure Elias Papaioannou Published 16.03.18
The Alibaba effect: Spatial inequality and the welfare gains from e-commerce E-commerce disproportionately benefits consumers in small and remote places, helping to reduce disparities in living standards across locations Firms Jingting Fan Lixin Tang Weiming Zhu Ben Zou Published 23.02.18
When models fall short: Evidence from Chinese road infrastructure investments Quantitative models may prove to be weak substitutes for direct empirical evidence; for evidence-based policymaking, research technique matters Infrastructure Nathaniel Baum-Snow Vernon Henderson Matthew Turner Qinghua Zhang Loren Brandt Published 09.11.17