Middleman margins and market structure in West Bengal potato supply chains Powerful middlemen in India enjoy large margins, but price gains do not pass through to farmers Firms Sandip Mitra Dilip Mookherjee Máximo Torero Sujata Visaria Published 21.08.17
Fast internet and employment in Africa Local employment effects of fast internet connections show that ICT might be one of the most effective employment-creating policies in Africa Technology & Innovation Jonas Hjort Published 18.08.17
Pathways to human development: Explaining the Bangladesh surprise Low-cost solutions and social mobilisation have helped surprising improvements in social development indicators, however there remain many challenges Institutions & Political Economy Wahiduddin Mahmud Published 16.08.17
Drawing the line: The short- and long-term consequences of partitioning India The economic and political consequences of the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 Institutions & Political Economy Prashant Bharadwaj Saumitra Jha Published 15.08.17
Democracy in Pakistan: Elections tell us why politicians behave badly Politicians in Pakistan provide patronage and are perceived as corrupt. Regime instability and incumbency disadvantage may explain their behaviour. Institutions & Political Economy Madiha Afzal Published 14.08.17
Colonial investments in education in India Investment, enrolment and achievement in primary education in India lag the rest of Asia and Latin America – a crisis 150 years in the making Education Latika Chaudhary Published 11.08.17
Thank you for your patronage: Discretionary appointments and bureaucrat performance Data on the British Empire show patronage in civil service appointments was a good system for those who got jobs but bad news for almost everyone else Public Economics Guo Xu Published 10.08.17
Designing more effective resettlement programs: Lessons from transmigration in Indonesia Better matching between transmigrants’ origin and destination agroclimate and languages can substantially improve productivity and integration Migration & Urbanisation Samuel Bazzi Arya Gaduh Alexander Rothenberg Maisy Wong Published 08.08.17
Generating SMEs through a business plan competition in Nigeria An experiment in Nigeria suggests that business plan competitions can effectively identify entrepreneurs capable of utilising capital to spur growth Firms David McKenzie Published 07.08.17
