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  • Tackling youth unemployment:evidence from a labor market experiment in Uganda. Alfonsi, Livia and Bandiera, Oriana and Bassi, Vittorio and Burgess, Robin and Rasul, Imran and Sulaiman, Munshi and Vitali, Anna picture_as_pdf
  • Field experiments with firms. Bandiera, Oriana and Barankay, Iwan and Rasul, Imran
  • Women’s empowerment in action:evidence from a randomized control trial in Africa. Bandiera, Oriana and Buehren, Niklas and Burgess, Robin and Goldstein, Markus and Gulesci, Selim and Rasul, Imran and Sulaiman, Munshi picture_as_pdf
  • The allocation of authority in organizations:a field experiment with bureaucrats. Bandiera, Oriana and Best, Michael Carlos and Khan, Adnan and Prat, Andrea picture_as_pdf
  • Land reform, poverty reduction and growth: evidence from India. Besley, Timothy and Burgess, Robin
  • Leaders in social movements:evidence from unions in Myanmar. Boudreau, Laura and Macchiavello, Rocco and Minni, Virginia and Tanaka, Mari picture_as_pdf
  • Contextualising women's mental distress and coping strategies in the time of AIDS: a rural South African case study. Burgess, Rochelle and Campbell, Catherine
  • Aid for trade: do those countries that need it, get it? Gamberoni, Elisa and Newfarmer, Richard
  • Navigating the urban age. Harman, Oliver and Wani, Shahrukh picture_as_pdf
  • Digital labour platforms as shock absorbers:evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique. Jones, Sam and Manhique, Ivan picture_as_pdf
  • Tax farming redux: experimental evidence on performance pay for tax collectors. Khan, Adnan Q. and Khwaja, Asim I. and Olken, Benjamin A.
  • Making moves matter:experimental evidence on incentivizing bureaucrats through performance-based postings. Khan, Adnan Q. and Khwaja, Asim Ijaz and Olken, Benjamin A. picture_as_pdf
  • COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in low- and middle-income countries. Solís Arce, Julio S. and Warren, Shana S. and Meriggi, Niccolò F. and Scacco, Alexandra and McMurry, Nina and Voors, Maarten and Syunyaev, Georgiy and Malik, Amyn Abdul and Aboutajdine, Samya and Adeojo, Opeyemi and Anigo, Deborah and Armand, Alex and Asad, Saher and Atyera, Martin and Augsburg, Britta and Awasthi, Manisha and Ayesiga, Gloria Eden and Bancalari, Antonella and Björkman Nyqvist, Martina and Borisova, Ekaterina and Bosancianu, Constantin Manuel and Cabra García, Magarita Rosa and Cheema, Ali and Collins, Elliott and Cuccaro, Filippo and Farooqi, Ahsan Zia and Fatima, Tatheer and Fracchia, Mattia and Galindo Soria, Mery Len and Guariso, Andrea and Hasanain, Ali and Jaramillo, Sofía and Kallon, Sellu and Kamwesigye, Anthony and Kharel, Arjun and Kreps, Sarah and Levine, Madison and Littman, Rebecca and Malik, Mohammad and Manirabaruta, Gisele and Mfura, Jean Léodomir Habarimana and Momoh, Fatoma and Mucauque, Alberto and Mussa, Imamo and Nsabimana, Jean Aime and Obara, Isaac and Otálora, María Juliana and Ouédraogo, Béchir Wendemi and Pare, Touba Bakary and Platas, Melina R. and Polanco, Laura and Qureshi, Javaeria Ashraf and Raheem, Mariam and Ramakrishna, Vasudha and Rendrá, Ismail and Shah, Taimur and Shaked, Sarene Eyla and Shapiro, Jacob N. and Svensson, Jakob and Tariq, Ahsan and Tchibozo, Achille Mignondo and Tiwana, Hamid Ali and Trivedi, Bhartendu and Vernot, Corey and Vicente, Pedro C. and Weissinger, Laurin B. and Zafar, Basit and Zhang, Baobao and Karlan, Dean and Callen, Michael and Teachout, Matthieu and Humphreys, Macartan and Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq and Omer, Saad B. picture_as_pdf
  • The Balassa–Samuelson relationship: services, manufacturing and product quality. Zhang, Qi
  • How to deal with exchange rate risk in infrastructure and other long-lived projects. de Castro, Luciano and Frischtak, Claudio and Rodrigues, Arthur picture_as_pdf
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  • Health workers in Zambia: co-producing knowledge. Bandiera, Oriana and Ashraf, Nava video_file
  • The case for growth with Tim Besley and Paul Collier. Besley, Timothy and Collier, Paul video_file
  • Taxing Pakistan: how to motivate civil servants. Khan, Adnan Q. video_file
    • Book
  • Mapa empresarial de Moçambique [An enterprise map of Mozambique: Portuguese version]. Sutton, John
  • An enterprise map of Mozambique. Sutton, John
  • 埃塞俄比亚企业地图. Sutton, John and Kellow, Nebil
  • An enterprise map of Ethiopia. Sutton, John and Kellow, Nebil
  • 加纳企业地图. Sutton, John and Kpentey, Bennet
  • An enterprise map of Ghana. Sutton, John and Kpentey, Bennet
  • An enterprise map of Zambia. Sutton, John and Langmead, Gillian
  • An enterprise map of Tanzania. Sutton, John and Olomi, Donath
    • Report
  • Assessing the stability and predictability of the money multiplier in the EAC: the case of Tanzania. Adam, Christopher and Kessy, Pantaleo
  • Why is it so difficult to implement a GST in Pakistan? Ahmad, Ehtisham
  • Women’s empowerment in action:evidence from a randomized control trial in Africa. Bandiera, Oriana and Burgess, Robin and Goldstein, Markus and Buehren, Niklas and Gulesci, Selim and Rasul, Imran and Sulaiman, Munshi
  • Can basic entrepreneurship transform the economic lives of the poor? Bandiera, Oriana and Das, Narayan and Burgess, Robin and Gulesci, Selim and Sulaiman, Munshi and Rasul, Imran
  • Community networks and poverty reduction programmes: evidence from Bangladesh. Bandiera, Oriana and Gulesci, Selim and Rasul, Imran and Burgess, Robin
  • Creating opportunity from crisis:raising worker productivity during the pandemic. Bower, Jonathan picture_as_pdf
  • The value of democracy: evidence from road building in Kenya. Burgess, Robin and Miguel, Edward and Jedwab, Remi and Morjaria, Ameet and Miquel, Gerard Padro i
  • Economics meets urban planning:developing effective land use plans in fast-growing cities. Collier, Paul and Glaeser, Edward and Venables, Tony and Delbridge, Victoria and Oliveira Cunha, Juliana picture_as_pdf
  • Designed to succeed:building authorising environments for fast-growing cities. Collier, Paul and Glaeser, Edward and Venables, Tony and Haas, Astrid and Wani, Shahrukh picture_as_pdf
  • Climbing up global value chains:leveraging FDI for economic development. Crescenzi, Riccardo and Harman, Oliver picture_as_pdf
  • Urban governance institutions:policy options for fast growing cities: version 1. Haas, Astrid and Wani, Shahrukh picture_as_pdf
  • Rebuilding the social compact:urban service delivery and property taxes in Pakistan. Ijaz Khwaja, Asim and Haq, Osman and Khan, Adnan and Olken, Benjamin and Shaukat, Mahvish
  • Boosting tax revenue of Zambian cities with technology. Kaputula, Mboyonga and Oliveira Cunha, Juliana picture_as_pdf
  • AgDevCo in Malawi:a case study of the higher costs and impact of investing in challenging contexts. Logan, Sarah and Isaac, Chris picture_as_pdf
  • Improving child nutrition through quality certification of infant foods: policy implications of a scoping study in Ghana. Masters, William A. and Kuwornu, John and Sarpong, Daniel
  • Urbanisation, transport and the environment:some considerations for a more productive Kampala. Oliveira Cunha, Juliana and Sorin, Jeanne picture_as_pdf
  • The BRT and the danfo:a case study of Lagos’ transport reforms from 1999-2019. Otunola, Biodun and Kriticos, Sebastian and Harman, Oliver picture_as_pdf
  • Informality and Covid-19 in sub-Sarahan Africa. Sacchetto, Camilla and Daniel, Egas and Danquah, Michael and Telli, Henry picture_as_pdf
  • Scaling energy investments in fragile states. Sacchetto, Camilla and Logan, Sarah picture_as_pdf
  • Timor-Leste's drivers of growth and sectoral transformation. Sacchetto, Camilla and Logan, Sarah and Asare, Joevas and Saab, Moussa picture_as_pdf
  • Strengthening development finance in fragile contexts. Sacchetto, Camilla and Logan, Sarah and Collier, Paul and Kriticos, Sebastian picture_as_pdf
    • Online resource
  • Bihar’s malnutrition crisis and potential solutions. Abraham, Ronald and Fraker, Andrew
  • Macroeconomic research in low-income countries: a conversation with Christopher Adam. Adam, Christopher
  • The road to monetary union in East Africa. Adam, Christopher
  • Photo Essay – Urban experimentation: How housing, transport, and infrastructure projects are revolutionising Addis Ababa. Africa@LSE
  • Does political reservation for women improve programme delivery? Afridi, Farzana
  • The demographic impact of extended paid maternity-leave in Bangladesh. Ahmed, Salma
  • Honey, I grew the kids: evidence from ethnic Indians in England. Alacevich, Caterina and Tarozzi, Alessandro
  • Trade costs and potential: removing barriers to growth in Pakistan. Ali, Salamat
  • The cost of air pollution in South Africa. Altieri, Katye and Keen, Samantha
  • Commodity price shocks in times of crisis: securing growth in sub-Saharan African economies. Amboko, Julians
  • Driving domestic investment: FDI use and source matter. Amighini, Alessia and McMillan, Margaret and Sanfilippo, Marco
  • Bride & prejudice: the price of education. Ashraf, Nava and Bau, Natalie and Nunn, Nathan and Voena, Alessandra
  • No toilet, no bride: the unlikely link between private toilets and marriage market outcomes in India. Augsburg, Britta and Rodríguez Lesmes, Paul
  • Recruiting and compensating civil servants: a field experiment in Zambia. Bandiera, Oriana
  • Zambia’s Ministry of Health works with economists to determine how best to recruit and retain community health workers. Bandiera, Oriana
  • Creating entrepreneurs: a big new idea in development. Bandiera, Oriana and Burgess, Robin and Rasul, Imran
  • Hiring do-gooders or go-getters: attracting talent to improve public service delivery. Bandiera, Oriana and Tobias, Julia
  • Could emerging economies change the rules of the global labour standards game? Bandyopadhyay, Kuntala
  • When models fall short: Evidence from Chinese road infrastructure investments. Baum-Snow, Nathaniel and Henderson, J. Vernon and Turner, Matthew A. and Zhang, Qinghua and Brandt, Loren
  • Delivering sanitation in Kampala. Beck, Charles
  • Can drawing on preliminary findings boost the impact of evidence on policymaking? Bell, Clive and Squire, Lyn
  • Successful strategies to help developing countries boost exports. Belloc, Marianna and Di Maio, Michele
  • Low oil prices: an opportunity for fuel subsidy reform. Benes, Keith and Cheon, Andrew and Urpelainen, Johannes and Yang, Joonseok
  • Has the recent financial crisis had an impact on sub-Saharan Africa? Berman, Nicolas and Martin, Philippe
  • Are economic conditions historically determined? Evidence from violence in Africa. Besley, Timothy
  • The welfare cost of Somali Piracy. Besley, Timothy
  • Piracy in Somalia costs billions. Besley, Timothy and Fetzer, Thiemo and Mueller, Hannes
  • Gender quotas and the crisis of the mediocre man. Besley, Timothy and Folke, Olle and Persson, Torsten and Rickne, Johanna
  • Eliminating extreme poverty in Africa: the role of policies and global governance. Bicaba, Zorobabel and Brixiová, Zuzana and Ncube, Mthuli
  • Unexpected side-effects: urban policies and market responses. Blake, Michael and Manwaring, Priya
  • Livestock services: agricultural technology & service delivery in rural Tanzania. Blum, Florian
  • Real effects of electronic wage payments: Bangladeshi factory workers. Breza, Emily and Kanz, Martin and Klapper, Leora
  • Creating a nation-state, and an economy, in South Sudan. Bromley, Daniel
  • Getting the ‘sand’ out of Africa’s food system. Bromley, Daniel
  • China’s industrial policy fosters collusion. Brooks, Wyatt and Li, Yao Amber and Dimble, Vikas
  • Ethiopia’s youth and their labour market prospects. Broussard, Nzinga and Tekleselassie, Tsegay Gebrekidan
  • Sharing once hidden information: credit bureaus, MFIs, and client welfare. Bryan, Gharad and Fischer, Gregory and de Quidt, Jonathan and Akbar, Ali
  • Delivering low income housing in Rwanda. Buckley, Robert and Murray, Sally
  • Tackling extreme poverty: in conversation with Robin Burgess. Burgess, Robin
  • Bihar growth model may bear fruit in other Indian states: Robin Burgess. Burgess, Robin and Anand, Anisha
  • Food fights: food prices and civil conflict in Africa. Burke, Marshall and McGuirk, Eoin F.
  • Interfirm relationships and business performance in Nanchang (China). Cai, Jing and Szeidl, Adam
  • The challenge of water provision in rural Tanzania. Carlitz, Ruth and Taylor, Ben
  • Why is Maharashtra’s average income five times that of Bihar? Chanda, Areendam
  • Cheaper, cleaner, more reliable: why invest in cross-border power-trading. Chattopadhyay, Deb and Wijayatunga, Priyantha D. and Fernando, P. N.
  • Urbanisation, growth and poverty reduction: the role of secondary towns. Christiaensen, Luc and De Weerdt, Joachim
  • One budget number every African citizen will need to know. Collier, Paul
  • Post 2015: growth and the new sustainable development agenda. Collier, Paul and Kaul, Upaasna
  • If we want the full benefit from resources; this is what we need. Collier, Paul and Laroche, Caroline
  • Natural resources do not need to be a curse (part 1 – explaining the resource curse). Collier, Paul and Laroche, Caroline
  • Natural resources do not need to be a curse (part 2 – avoiding the resource curse). Collier, Paul and Laroche, Caroline
  • Corruption in construction. Colonnelli, Emanuele and Haas, Astrid
  • Expanding Indian public health insurance above the poverty line. Conti, Gabriella and Kinnan, Cynthia and Laxminarayan, Ramanan and Malani, Anup and Voena, Alessandra
  • Smaller family sizes and ageing populations may reduce long-run savings rates. Curtis, Chad and Lugauer, Steven and Mark, Nelson
  • Regional value chains: enhancing productivity in East Africa. Daly, Jack
  • Rethinking clientelism: politics of service delivery in rural India. Dasgupta, Aditya
  • Powering change: can rural electrification close the gender gap? Dasso, Rosamaría and Fernandez, Fernando
  • From local to global: extrapolating experiments. Dehejia, Rajeev and Pop-Eleches, Cristian and Samii, Cyrus
  • Urban density, trust, and knowledge sharing in Lusaka. Delfino, Alexia and Swanson, Nicholas
  • Demons of density: delivering water and sanitation to the poor. Dempster, Helen
  • Demons of density: growth of the violent city. Dempster, Helen
  • Getting the most out of local government: lessons from Uganda. Dempster, Helen
  • Escalera: stairway to better education, evidence from rural Mexico. Dempster, Helen and Intemann, Zachary
  • Governing growth: how business regulations can foster productivity. Divanbeigi, Raian and Ramalho, Rita
  • Transforming Myanmar’s energy sector. Doberman, Tim
  • Aid-financed infrastructure promotes foreign direct investments. Donaubauer, Julian and Meyer, Birgit and Nunnenkamp, Peter
  • Promoting FDI through financial market development in host and source countries. Donaubauer, Julian and Neumayer, Eric and Nunnenkamp, Peter
  • Are African leaders misusing Chinese development finance? The price of country ownership. Dreher, Axel and Fuchs, Andreas and Hodler, Roland and Parks, Bradley and Raschky, Paul and Tierney, Michael
  • Challenges in banking the rural poor: evidence from Kenya’s western province. Dupas, Pascaline and Robinson, Jonathan and Keats, Anthony
  • Does more mean better? #SDGs and the (unmet) need for measurable indicators of egalitarian social change. Evans, Alice
  • Africa must industrialise and trade more to achieve the #SDGs. Fasan, Olu
  • Brexit: why Africa will lose a voice in Brussels but gain the best of both worlds. Fasan, Olu
  • Can workfare programmes moderate violence? Fetzer, Thiemo
  • Running out of water, walking away from farming. Fishman, Ram
  • What drives migration in northern Gujarat? Fishman, Ram and Jain, Meha and Kishore, Avinash
  • Neglected drivers of urbanisation in Africa. Fox, Sean
  • Yangon’s mobility crisis: a governance problem. Fox, Sean
  • Part 1: is population growth good or bad for economic development? Fox, Sean and Dyson, Tim
  • Part 2: is population growth good or bad for economic development? Fox, Sean and Dyson, Tim
  • Curse of anonymity or tyranny of distance? The impacts of job-search support in urban Ethiopia. Franklin, Simon and Caria, Stefano
  • The boring infrastructure that Rwanda needs. Frazer, Garth
  • Bureaucracy intermediaries, corruption and red tape. Fredriksson, Anders
  • From boom to bust: avoiding economic ‘growth reversals’ in Africa. Gardner, Leigh A. and Broadberry, Stephen
  • The inflationary impact of the grain procurement policy in India. Ghate, Chetan and Gupta, Sargam and Mallick, Debdulal
  • India: chasing the dragon? Ghate, Chetan and Robertson, Peter
  • The incidence and impact of electronic billing machines for VAT in Rwanda. Ghirmai, Eva and Logan, Sarah and Murray, Sally
  • Strengthening the accountability of politicians. Glennerster, Rachel
  • Should we believe the hype about adolescent girls? Goldstein, Markus
  • Voter education in Mali raises expectation of government performance. Gottlieb, D. J.
  • How will the #SDGs differ from the MDGs? Green, Duncan and Yamada, Takumo
  • Let them buy light in rural Bihar. Greenstone, Michael and Burgess, Robin and Ryan, Nicholas and Sudarshan, Anant
  • Natural resource wealth: making resource windfalls work for Sub-Saharan African countries. Gueye, Cheikh Ante and Lee, Munseob
  • Proceed with caution: South Sudan and the East African Monetary Union. Haas, Astrid
  • Impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty in Uganda. Haas, Astrid and Wolf, Sebastian and Jellema, Jon and Lustig, Nora
  • Putting undernutrition higher on the political agenda. Haddad, Lawrence
  • A ‘perfect storm’ for ending undernutrition. Haddad, Lawrence
  • Is ‘big data’ over-hyped? The importance of good data for improving health policy in Punjab. Hammer, Jeffrey
  • Turing Testing and the Game of Life: Cognitive science is about designing lifelong performance capacity not short-term fooling. Harnard, Stevan
  • Cash: a simple remedy for domestic violence? Haushoffer, Johannes and Thomas, Catherine
  • Five reasons to think twice about the UN’s sustainable development goals. Hickel, Jason
  • Closing the gap? The rural-urban divide in India. Hnatkovska, Viktoria and Lahiri, Amartya
  • Reducing trade costs. Hoekman, Bernard and Shepherd, Ben
  • Who benefits from aid-for-trade? Hühne, Philipp and Meyer, Birgit and Nunnenkamp, Peter
  • Determinants of the exchange rate and policy implications for Zambia. IGC
  • Evaluating the effects of microfinance. IGC
  • Aarogyasri programme: public health insurance and community networks. Jain, Tarun and Debnath, Sisir
  • Why the firstborn is more likely to succeed in life. Jayachandran, Seema and Pande, Rohini
  • Moving from a fixed to a floating exchange rate: the case of the South Sudanese Pound. Jefferis, Keith and Haas, Astrid
  • Can social media and the internet reduce corruption? Jha, Chandan
  • Do women in power have an impact on corruption? Jha, Chandan and Sarangi, Sudipta
  • FDI can catalyse job creation and industrialisation in Africa. Jinhage, Amanda
  • Rural-to-urban migration: improving labour market prospects. Jinhage, Amanda
  • Rwanda’s export challenge. Jinhage, Amanda
  • Tourism, trust and unequal pay: recapping the IGC-SCID conference on ‘firms, trade and development’. Jinhage, Amanda
  • Financing Africa’s future. Kaberuka, Donald
  • Cross border trading: Sierra Leone and her neighbours. Kamara, Abou Bakarr
  • The effects of electricity grid access on Indonesian manufacturing firms. Kassem, Dana
  • Sustainable Development: the goals and the challenges ahead. Kattumuri, Ruth
  • Cashless economics: the new wave of mobile money. Kaul, Upaasna
  • Epidemics, ethnicity, and empowerment: a cities recap. Kaul, Upaasna
  • New IGC annual report. Kaul, Upaasna
  • New era for aid: is community driven development the answer? Kaul, Upaasna
  • Risky business: firms, trade and development. Kaul, Upaasna and Jinhage, Amanda
  • The new urban agenda (part 2): urban complementarities. Kaul, Upaasna and Jinhage, Amanda
  • The new urban agenda: cities of the future. Kaul, Upaasna and Yam, Emilie
  • DFID’s approach to economic development. Kennedy, David
  • 3 policy lessons from Africa’s colonial railways. Kerby, Edward and Moradi, Alexander and Jedwab, Remi
  • Beating the addiction to dollars: policy options for Tanzania. Kessy, Pantaleo
  • How not to control corruption, Pakistani style. Khan, Feisal
  • Land acquisition: balancing agricultural growth and industry. Khatun, Mazida picture_as_pdf
  • The challenge of fulfilling aspirations. Kotwal, Ashok
  • The costs of employment protection. Krishna, Kala and Dougherty, Sean and Frisancho, Veronica
  • Neighbours and extension agents in Ethiopia: who matters more for technology diffusion? Krishnan, Pramila and Patnam, Manasa
  • Droughts and child health. Kumar, Santosh and Molitor, Ramona and Vollmer, Sebastian
  • Reducing poisoning by arsenic in tubewell water. Kumar Singh, Chander and Van Geen, Alexander
  • Fighting poverty with soap operas. La Ferrara, Eliana
  • Anticipating regional integration in Africa. Laski, Anne
  • Blurred lines: East African Community integrates in fits and starts. Laski, Anne
  • Zero-draft proposal on sustainable development goals falls short. Leape, Jonathan
  • Bad management: a constraint on economic development? Lemos, Renata and Scur, Daniela
  • Scaling up social protection: price & productivity effects on growth. Levy, Stephanie
  • The economics of humanitarian aid: are we on a slippery slope? Levy, Stephanie
  • The role of election competition in strengthening Pakistan’s fledgling local democracy. Liaqat, Asad and Callen, Michael and Cheema, Ali and Khan, Adnan Q. and Naseer, Muhammad Farooq and Shapiro, Jacob N.
  • Local revenue reform with the Kampala Capital City Authority. Logan, Sarah
  • Measuring growth and poverty in Tanzania. Lugo, Maria Ana and Atkinson, Anthony
  • A missing target in the SDGs: tax systems should not reduce the income of the poor. Lustig, Nora
  • Sustainable development and iron ore production in Sierra Leone: the next 50 years. M'cleod, Herbert
  • Click to apply: the impact of online job portals on job search outcomes. Magruder, Jeremy
  • A new approach to microfinance. Maitra, Pushkar and Mitra, Sandip and Mookherjee, Dilip and Motta, Alberto and Visaria, Sujata
  • The Bihar story: resurrection of the state. Manjhi, Jitan Ram
  • Clicking towards Mozambique’s new jobs. Martins, Pedro
  • The story of José: 9 steps to turn the Mozambican construction boom into an engine for inclusive growth. Maugeri, Novella
  • Quer se tornar um empreendedor em Moçambique? 3 coisas que você precisa saber! Maugeri, Novella and Oppewal, Jorrit
  • Want to become an entrepreneur in Mozambique? 3 things you need to know! Maugeri, Novella and Oppewal, Jorrit
  • Remittances and credit markets: complementarities and evidence from Senegal. Mbaye, Linguère
  • Can index based insurance reduce the vulnerability of farmers to weather? McSharry, Patrick E. and Swartz, Tom and Spray, John
  • The unintended child health consequences of the green revolution in India. Menon, Nidhiya
  • National institutions and subnational development in Africa. Michalopoulos, Stelios and Papaioannou, Elias
  • Insights from Nepal’s abortion legalisation. Miller, Grant and Valente, Christine and Miller, Emily
  • MNREGA: populist leaky bucket or anti-poverty success? Mookherjee, Dilip
  • Drivers for diversification: firm productivity and export growth. Moono, Herryman
  • Exorcising government inefficiency through e-systems. Moono, Herryman
  • IGC economist thrives on producing research that influences government policy. Moono, Herryman
  • The value of democracy in the world’s poorest region: evidence from Kenya’s road building. Morjaria, Ameet
  • Reinvigorating India’s manufacturing sector: integrating the services value chain with Southeast Asia. Mukherjee, Arpita and Goyal, Tanu M.
  • Biometric payment systems and welfare benefits. Muralidharan, Karthik and Niehaus, Paul and Sukhtankar, Sandip
  • Building affordable housing in Kigali. Murray, Sally and Halusan, Brian
  • Formally insuring the informally insured. Mushfiq Mobarak, Ahmed picture_as_pdf
  • Four approaches to unleashing Pakistan’s growth. Nabi, Shehryar
  • Four ideas changing how the Punjab government thinks about development. Nabi, Shehryar
  • Digital Bangladesh: assessing the impact of electronic government procurement. Naeem, Farria
  • Will WTO membership boost trade and investment in land-locked Afghanistan? Nasrat, Sayed and Tamim Karimi, Abdul
  • Ensuring land rights through community mobilisation. Nickow, Andre Joshua and Kumar, Sanjay
  • New #IGC Research: Does the current #FinancialCrisis Have an impact on sub-Saharan #Africa? Nicola, Mastrorocco
  • The #GlobalGoals are more comprehensive, but fall short in targets for #health. Nkwanga, Waiswa
  • Investing in Nigeria’s youth bulge. Omoju, Oluwasola E. and Abraham, Terfa W.
  • Foreign investors under stress: evidence from India. Patnaik, Ila and Shah, Ajay and Singh, Nirvikar
  • Does South-South FDI Pay? Perez Villar, Lucia and Seric, Adnan and Krieger-Boden, Christiane
  • Employer-sponsored health insurance: low premiums, low savings. Rabbani, Atonu and Sarker, Malabika
  • Should I stay or should I go. Ranzani, Marco and Molini, Vasco and Pavelesku, Dan
  • Power politics and energy trade. Ravinder and Chattopadhyay, Deb and Bazilian, Morgan
  • Start your engines: automobile exports, comparing India and China. Ray, Saon and Miglani, Smita
  • How inefficient land allocation in Malawi is severely depressing agricultural productivity. Restuccia, Diego and Santaeulàlia-Llopis, Raül
  • New IGC Research looks at how Ghana can use its new-found oil wealth to stimulate growth. Rizieri, Guido
  • High incidence of violent crime may drive geographic chronic poverty. Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos and Martínez-Cruz, Adán
  • Matching and migration: lessons from a resettlement programme in Indonesia. Rothenberg, Alex and Bazzi, Samuel and Gaduh, Arya and Wong, Maisy
  • Corruption is both a symptom of the basic structures of capitalism, and a technology that supports them. Sanchez, Andrew
  • A balancing act: subsidising treatment for Malaria. Schaner, Simone
  • Data-Jam: could data reduce road congestion in Dhaka? Sebastio, Filippo
  • Disabling the drivers of unequal growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sembene, Daouda
  • Helping India’s informal manufacturing sector to grow. Sen, Kunal
  • Doing business with corruption. Sequeira, Sandra
  • Do workfare programmes reduce educational attainment? Evidence from India. Shah, Manisha and Steinberg, Bryce
  • Cross-party involvement and reform in Pakistan. Shaikh, Hina
  • Reforming fossil fuel subsidies provides opportunity to better target government support towards women and children. Sharma, Shruti and Merrill, Laura and Beaton, Christopher and Kitson, Lucy
  • Road networks and enterprise performance in Ethiopia: Evidence from the road sector development programme. Shiferaw, Admasu and Söderbom, Måns and Siba, Eyerusalem and Alemu, Getnet
  • SDG 11: supporting the delivery of cities that work for all. Shiraz, Shabana
  • Barriers to labour migration in Bangladesh’s garment sector. Shonchoy, Abu
  • Post-election challenges for Zambia. Simuzingili, Muloongo
  • The GST: light at the end of the tunnel? Singh, Nirvikar
  • Lights out: Zambia’s electricity crisis. Sladoje, Miljan
  • Zambia urbanising part 1: tackling bad contagion. Sladoje, Miljan
  • Zambia urbanising part 2: encouraging good contagion. Sladoje, Miljan
  • The new urban agenda: a solid foundation for concrete actions? Sladoje, Miljan
  • Can free bikes close the education gender gap in India? South Asia, LSE picture_as_pdf
  • Can policy-relevant research make a difference? South Asia, LSE picture_as_pdf
  • Debt and entrepreneurship: microfinance in India. South Asia, LSE picture_as_pdf
  • Looking back at The IGC Growth Week 2014. South Asia, LSE
  • Sub-Saharan Africa on cusp of major global economic boom. Sutton, John
  • Assessing the economic effects of Ebola. Thornton, Phil
  • Building the African cities of the future. Thornton, Phil
  • Chinese miners and Ghana’s golden reform opportunity. Thornton, Phil
  • Key lessons in management for developing countries. Thornton, Phil
  • Liberian Minister calls for help to tackle Ebola. Thornton, Phil
  • Pricing the real cost of energy. Thornton, Phil
  • When entrepreneurship training matters most. Titley, Janine and Anderson-Macdonald, Stephen
  • #PoweringGrowth: 3 new facts from the IGC Energy Conference. Tobias, Julia and Kaul, Upaasna
  • Women’s economic opportunities: what can South Asian countries learn from each other? Troyer Moore, Charity and McIntyre, Vestal
  • Can easier access to credit help lift Ghanaian farmers out of poverty? Udry, Chris
  • How solar power could transform rural India. Urpelainen, Johannes
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