Ed Gleaser on why urbanisation is the best way to foster economic growth, and how cities should be planned.

Slum tenants face higher rents and lower investments when their landlord and chief share ethnicity, while gaining when their chief is a co-ethnic

The primary cause of incomplete infrastructure projects in Ghana is poor financial planning. This video documents the evolution of this study.

Investments in bus rapid transit systems can lead to large returns that benefit the high-skilled more than we might expect

Ed Gleaser on why urbanisation is the best way to foster economic growth, and how cities should be planned.

How does the clearance of land mines impact economic activity in Mozambique? Elias Papaioannou sheds some insight using geographical and micro-level...

Jitendra Bajpai of Columbia University outlines the three major accessibility problems facing cities in developing countries and policy ideas for how...

The dynamic interplay of geography, technology, economic growth, and history has changed the way population is distributed

A study finds that military-led projects in the Afghan health sector alleviate violence, whereas those in the education sector actually provoke...