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What Bangs for Your Bucks? Assessing the Design and Impact of Transformative Policy
After an era of generic support for economic development and innovation, narrowly targeted transformation policy is back on the table. Recent advances in the fields of new industrial policy and […]
Development Policy and Development Economics: An Introduction
Anyone who undertakes to produce a volume of surveys in economic development must confront the question: Does the world really need another one? The field changes over time and, one […]
Growth and Competitiveness in Kazakhstan: Issues and Priorities in the Areas of Macroeconomic, Industrial, Trade and Institutional Development Policies
Kazakhstan has achieved many of its goals and faces enormous opportunities. It has been able to transform itself into a market economy, thus unleashing the productive capacity of its citizens […]
Air Transportation and Regional Economic Development: A Case Study for the New Airport in South Albania
Considering the case of the proposed airport in Vlora, South Albania, this report analyzes the channels through which a new greenfield airport can contribute to regional economic development. In December […]
Industrial policy for competitiveness in the energy transition
Green objectives have reshaped public policy worldwide since the signing in 2015 of the Paris Agreement to limit global warming. Climate policy has moved from being one policy among many […]
Harnessing Global Value Chains for Regional Development: How to Upgrade through Regional Policy, FDI, and Trade
In today’s increasingly interconnected global economy, place-based development strategy must be strategic towards leveraging global economic opportunities. Riccardo Crescenzi and Oliver Harman explore this intricate landscape and provide a valuable […]
Labor Market Nationalization Policies and Firm Outcomes: Evidence from Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia is home to the world’s third largest migrant population. Under mounting pressure to increase the private sector employment of Saudis during the last decade, a series of nationalization […]
Conflicts Over Land and Threats to Customary Tenure in Africa Today
Issues swirling around land across Africa have never been so central to key social and political-economic dynamics as they are at the present time. The first part of the paper […]
Global Networks, Monetary Policy and Trade
We develop a novel framework to study the interaction between monetary policy and trade. Our New Keynesian open economy model incorporates international production networks, sectoral heterogeneity in price rigidities, and […]