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What is the impact of natural resource booms on income inequality? Some...
Commodity price shocks can have powerful but unequal effects on labour, capital and land. A large literature, often referred to as the ‘Dutch Disease’ literature, documents the effects of these...
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Property rights in diverse places: lessons from Dar es Salaam
A diverse slum in Dar es Salaam: each colour represents a household from a different tribe Last year, while wandering around a slum in Dar es Salaam with a colleague, I happened upon a local...
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World Development Report 2014: a missed opportunity?
The World Development Report is the flagship statement by the World Bank on development for the upcoming year. As someone who spends a considerable amount of time working on risk and insurance in...
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A loan shark in sheep’s clothing? Is commercialization of microfinance bad...
After years of positive media attention and a Nobel Peace Prize for Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, it’s been hard to miss the recent controversy surrounding the microfinance industry. Critical media...
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Banking in Africa: taking stock and looking forward
Banking in Africa has undergone dramatic changes over the past 20 years. While dominated by government-owned banks in the 1980s and subject to restrictive regulation – including interest rate ceilings...
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Lessons from macro-prudential policy in emerging markets
Last week, Donald Kohn, current member of Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee and former Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors at the FED, gave a seminar at Oxford University on a key...
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How do African incomes compare to the rest of the world?
How poor are people in Sub-Saharan Africa compared to the rest of the World? International comparisons of GDP per capita do not provide an answer to this question because they ignore within-country...
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From rebellion to electoral violence
Promoting democratisation and elections has been at the core of peace-building missions in post-conflict societies since the end of the Cold War. Recent examples are Afghanistan, the Democratic...
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Households and networks: Will your friend’s job search get you a job? Does...
More fresh papers from the CSAE Conference! Elwyn Davies, Viviana Perego, Emma Riley and Marc Witte give an overview of a selection papers on networks, households and gender. Are there spillovers from...
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The latest on Firms: More on the (missing?) missing middle debate, firms...
Firms were a popular topic at the CSAE Conference. While two years ago there were only four sessions dedicated to firms, this year there were a solid seven sessions dedicated to firms (overtaking...
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