Chandan Sapkota's blog

Quite interesting paper: Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography vers...

New Book: Africa's Future, Africa's Challenge: Early Childhood Care and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa . Full text here . Th...

I have been inundated with papers (quality ones) and I cannot stop myself reading them. This one is related to conditional cash transfer (CC...

A new report ( Linking Education Policy to Labor Market Outcomes ) from the WB looks at how education improves labor market outcomes. One of...

Bill Gates writes in the Asian WSJ: Across Asia, public-private partnerships are playing an important role in creating new economic op...

These are snippets of conclusion of an international panel on growth for South Africa written by Ricardo Hausmann, its Chairman. These are ...

Topic: Why Do Some Countries Remain Poor While Others Grow Rich? More here .