Tag: Global

Aid can help to address global poverty. But we need field experiments—randomized controlled trials—to tell us which programs work.

If richer states provide security, the poorest can finally grow.

That people respond to the relative costs and returns of schooling might imply that the poor are optimizing the amount of school they invest in, as predicted in a simple economic model. But evidence suggests that reality is more complex.

History shows that forcing rulers from power rarely works. Even apparently successful regime changes often leads to bitter civil war.

A small percentage of consumers have already moved a portion of the market toward more sustainable practices. But the larger promise of ethical consumption remains unmet.