Funded publications
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The Job Ladder
(2023)
Using a range of countries from the Global South, this book examines heterogeneity within informal work by applying a common conceptual framework and empirical methodology. The country studies use panel data to study the ...
COVID-19 and the Informal Economy
(2024)
A key challenge for the post-COVID-19 global economy is whether the disproportionate impact of the crisis on informal workers, who form the majority of the world’s workforce, will be acknowledged. Or whether harmful and ...
Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System
(2017)
This book provides an analysis of the global monetary system and the necessary reforms that it should undergo to play an active role in the twenty-first century. As its title indicates, its basic diagnosis is that it is ...
The Political Economy of Clean Energy Transitions
(2017)
The 21st Conference of the Parties (CoP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) shifted the nature of the political economy challenge associated with achieving a global emissions trajectory ...
Growth, Employment, and Poverty in Latin America
(2017)
This book examines the links between economic growth, changing employment conditions, and the reduction of poverty in Latin America in the 2000s. Our analysis answers the following broad questions: Has economic growth ...
Towards Gender Equity in Development
(2019)
As a result of widespread mistreatment and overt discrimination in all dimensions of their lives, women lack significant autonomy. The central preoccupation of this book is to explore key sources of female empowerment and ...
Industries without Smokestacks
(2019)
Structural transformation in Africa has become a hot topic. One of the earliest stylized facts of development economics is that low-income countries have large differences in output per worker across sectors, and movement ...
How States Respond to Crisis
(2025)
We expect the state to matter in times of crisis, and for more ‘capable’ or ‘stronger’ states to better provide for and protect their populations. But how is it, precisely, that the quality of the state matters? This volume ...
Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2016)
While the economic growth renaissance in sub-Saharan Africa is widely recognized, much less is known about progress in living conditions. This book comprehensively evaluates trends in living conditions in 16 major sub-Saharan ...
Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam: A Rising Dragon on the Move
(2017)
Many developing countries—Viet Nam included—continue to struggle to raise incomes per capita. A common feature of the growth and development process is a fundamental change in the pattern of economic activity, as households ...