Archive for October 2019
Blog Interview: “How to Reform a Government Investment Agency”
In an interview originally published in LSE’s Annual Review 2015-2016, John Sutton of LSE talks about the insights he learned from on-the-ground work with Ethiopia’s government regarding establishing effective government agencies.
Read MoreExecutive Summary: Why Some States are So Much More Effective at Implementing Policy Than Others
In this executive summary, Best, Szakonyi and Hjort write about a 2017 article in which they utilized state procurement as an outcome variable to evaluate bureaucratic efficacy in Russia, much in the way that diagnostics of effectiveness in firms measured by indicators such as sales, costs and profits would suggest where a firm can be improving.
Read MoreVoxDev Video: “Bringing Research to Policy”
Sebastian Galiani of the University of Maryland is currently Deputy Minister at the Argentinian Treasury. Here he talks about the links between academia and policy.
Read MorePodcast: “Multinational Enforcement of Labor Laws”
In this VoxDev talks, Laura Boudreau from Columbia Business School talks about a recent experiment she ran in Bangladesh with multinational buyers in the garment sector and how their involvement changed compliance with safety regulations on the part of Bangladeshi suppliers.
Read MorePodcast: “A Global Response to the Climate Crisis”
This podcast from the Brookings Cafeteria focuses on the climate crisis and the burden left on the rest of the world after the US withdrawal from the 2015 Paris Accords.
Read MorePodcast: US-China Competition in Global Development
This podcast from Brookings Cafeteria talks about China’s growing clout in the world and some misconceptions surround its rise, the US-China strategic rivalry, and China’s role in a global rules-based order.
Read MoreRequired Reading: “Social Welfare and the Tradeoff Between Efficiency and Equity”
In the second of a two-part series, this article on social welfare considers cross-country differences in the effect of taxation on labor supply. It has been assigned as reading for “Public Economics,” a core course taught in the fall.
Read MoreFoundational Article: “Rethinking the Growth Diagnostic Approach”
Growth diagnostics attempts to determine what particular factors are inhibiting a country from achieving a higher growth rate. This report by Felipe and Usui first delves deeper into that definition, and then analyzes the limitations and the advantages of growth diagnostics, as well as providing some practical advice for donor agencies about the potential pitfalls.
Read MoreCourse Text: “Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia”
Excerpts from this article have been assigned as required reading for a core CDE course, “Public Economics.”
Read MoreCDE Course Text: Impact Evaluation in Practice
Excerpts from this book are required as reading for the CDE course Public Economics. The book is also listed as a reference text for the CDE elective Program Evaluation.
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