Why do growth rates differ? This paper surveys the recent empirical literature on economic
growth, starting with a discussion of stylized facts, data problems, and statistical methods …

Proponents and critics alike agree that the policies spawned by the Washington Consensus
have not produced the desired results. The debate now is not over whether the Washington …

The Fund has recognized in recent years that one cannot separate issues of economic
growth and stability on one hand and equality on the other. Indeed, there is a strong case for …

This article argues that a common pattern and set of dynamics characterizes severe political
and societal polarization in different contexts around the world, with pernicious …

All societies must deal with the possibility of violence, and they do so in different ways. This
book integrates the problem of violence into a larger social science and historical …

We exploit differences in European mortality rates to estimate the effect of institutions on
economic performance. Europeans adopted very different colonization policies in different …

In the 1990s the concept of social capital—defined here as the norms and networks that
enable people to act collectively—enjoyed a remarkable rise to prominence across all the …

We examine the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on the value of global currencies against
the US dollar (USD) using event study methodology and market model estimates. We show …

In One Economics, Many Recipes, leading economist Dani Rodrik argues that neither
globalizers nor antiglobalizers have got it right. While economic globalization can be a boon …

Most nations have experienced an internal armed conflict since 1960. Yet while civil war is
central to many nations' development, it has stood at the periphery of economics research …