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The global energy challenge

What are 3 key energy challenges the world faces? How can they be overcome?

Energy & Environment

Michael Greenstone

Published

27.03.18

Can farmers weather climate change?

Jonathan Colmer explores the effect increasing temperatures have on farmers and the occupational structure in India.

Agriculture

Jonathan Colmer

Published

21.03.18

The economics of clearing land mines

How does the clearance of land mines impact economic activity in Mozambique? Elias Papaioannou sheds some insight using geographical and micro-level economic data.

Infrastructure

Elias Papaioannou

Published

16.03.18

Productivity and energy-saving technology

Factories using energy-efficient lighting reduce ambient temperature on the factory floor by 2.5 degrees Celsius, causing a massive improvement in output per worker

Energy & Environment

Anant Nyshadham

Published

09.03.18

What is holding firms back?

Chris Woodruff explains why improving management practices is critical for the growth of the private sector in developing countries.

Firms

Christopher Woodruff

Published

01.03.18

If she builds it, they won’t come: The gender profit gap

Lack of demand for goods produced by female-owned firms, and not differences in prices or input costs, causes the gender profit gap.

Firms

Morgan Hardy

Published

20.02.18

An agenda for urban access

Jitendra Bajpai of Columbia University outlines the three major accessibility problems facing cities in developing countries and policy ideas for how to overcome them.

Migration & Urbanisation

Jitendra Bajpai

Published

12.02.18