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148: Giffen Behavior: Theory and Evidence

Robert T. Jensen and Nolan H. Miller

147a: The Connectivity Trap: Stuck Between the Forest and Shared Prosperity in the Colombian Amazon

Patricio Goldstein, Timothy Freeman, Alejandro Rueda-Sanz, Shreyas Gadgin Matha, Sarah Bui, Nidhi Rao, Timothy Cheston and Sebastian Bustos

147: Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption

Rohini Pande

146a: Evaluating the Principle of Relatedness: Estimation, Drivers and Implications for Policy

Frank Neffke and Yang Li

146: The Structure of the Product Space and the Evolution of Comparative Advantage

Ricardo Hausmann and Bailey Klinger

145a: The Economic Tale of Two Amazons: Lessons in Generating Shared Prosperity While Protecting the Forest in the Peruvian and Colombian Amazon

Alejandro Rueda-Sanz and Timothy Cheston

145: Understanding Political Corruption in Low Income Countries

Rohini Pande

144a: Diagnosing Human Capital as a Binding Constraint to Growth: Tests, Symptoms and Prescriptions

Farah Hani and Miguel Santos

144: Measuring the Contribution of Criminal Justice Systems to the Control of Crime and Violence: Lessons from Jamaica and the Dominican Republic

Todd Foglesong and Christopher Stone

143a: The Value of Early-Career Skills

Simon Wiederhold and Christina Langer

143: Through the Pass-Through: Measuring Central Bank Credibility

Roberto Rigobon

142a: Search, Transport Costs, and Labor Markets in South Africa

Kishan Shah and Federico Sturzenegger

142: Whose Security? Deepening Social Conflict over ‘Customary’ Land in the Shadow of Land Tenure Reform in Malawi*

Pauline Peters and Daimon Kambewa

141a: The Long-Run Effects of South Africa’s Forced Resettlements on Employment Outcomes

Alexia Lochmann, Nidhi Rao and Martín Rossi

141: Challenges in Land Tenure and Land Reform in Africa: An Anthropological Perspective

Pauline Peters

140a: Diagnosing Drivers of Spatial Exclusion: Places, People, and Policies in South Africa’s Former Homelands

Alexia Lochmann

140: What Works in Fighting Diarrheal Diseases in Developing Countries? A Critical Review

Alix Peterson Zwane and Michael Kremer

139a: Getting Back on the Curve South Africa’s Manufacturing Challenge

Andres Fortunato

139: On the Rand: Determinants of the South African Exchange Rate

Jeffrey Frankel

138a: Diagnosing South Africa’s High Unemployment and Low Informality

Kishan Shah

138: Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit

Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster and Michael Kremer

137a: More (Inclusive) Entrepreneurship in South Africa: The Role of Franchising

Bailey Klinger

137: The Implications of Dark Matter for Assessing the US External Imbalance

Ricardo Hausmann and Federico Sturzenegger

136: Growth Collapses

Ricardo Hausmann, Rodrigo Wagner and Francisco Rodríguez

135a: A Measure of Countries’ Distance to Frontier Based on Comparative Advantage

Ulrich Schetter

135: South African Trade Policy Matters: Trade Performance & Trade Policy

Lawrence Edwards and Robert Lawrence

134: Why Has Unemployment Risen in the New South Africa?

Sebastian Galliani, James Levinsohn and Ingrid Woolard

133a: Bridging the short-term and long-term dynamics of economic structural change

Andres Gomez-Lievano, Frank Neffke, Yang Li and James McNerney

133: South Africa: Macroeconomic Challenges after a Decade of Success

Jeffrey Frankel, Ben Smit and Federico Sturzenegger

132a: The Quest for Increased Saudization: Labor Market Outcomes and the Shadow Price of Workforce Nationalization Policies

Michael Lopesciolo, Daniela Muhaj and Carolina Ines Pan

132: Competition and Productivity Growth in South Africa

Philippe Aghion, Matias Braun and Johannes Fedderke

131a: Understanding Saudi Private Sector Employment And Unemployment

Farah Hani and Michael Lopesciolo

131: Crime, Justice, and Growth in South Africa: Toward a Plausible Contribution from Criminal Justice to Economic Growth

Christopher Stone

130a: Inequality, Openness, and Growth through Creative Destruction

Ulrich Schetter, Adrian Jäggi and Maik Schneider

130: Understanding South Africa’s Economic Puzzles

Dani Rodrik

129a: Assessing Ukraine's Role in European Value Chains: A Gravity Equation-cum-Economic Complexity Analysis Approach

Matte Hartog, Frank Neffke and José López-Córdova

129: South Africa’s Export Predicament

Bailey Klinger

128a: Income Changes after Inter-city Migration

Eduardo Lora

128: Structural Transformation and Patterns of Comparative Advantage in the Product Space

Ricardo Hausmann and Bailey Klinger

127a: Air Transportation and Regional Economic Development: A Case Study for the New Airport in South Albania

Shreyas Gadgin Matha, Patricio Goldstein and Jessie Lu

127: Advance Market Commitments for Vaccines Against Neglected Diseases: Estimating Costs and Effectiveness

Ernst R. Berndt, Rachel Glennerster, Michael Kremer, Jean Lee, Ruth Levine, Georg Weizsäcker and Heidi Williams

126a: Quality Differentiation, Comparative Advantage, and International Specialization Across Products

Ulrich Schetter

126: China and the Global Economy: Medium-term Issues and Options - A Synthesis Report

Edwin Lim, A. Spence and Ricardo Hausmann

125a: Does Birthplace Diversity Affect Economic Complexity? Cross-country Evidence

Dany Bahar, Hillel Rapoport and Riccardo Turati

125: Economic Growth: Shared Beliefs, Shared Disappointments?

Ricardo Hausmann

124a: Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations

Dany Bahar and Hillel Rapoport

124: Global Imbalances or Bad Accounting? The Missing Dark Matter in the Wealth of Nations

Ricardo Hausmann and Federico Sturzenegger

123a: Profit Sharing, Industrial Upgrading, and Global Supply Chains: Theory and Evidence

Jim Huangnan Shen

123: What You Export Matters

Ricardo Hausmann, Jason Hwang and Dani Rodrik

122a: Skill Mismatch and the Costs of Job Displacement

Frank Neffke, Ljubica Nedelkoska and Simon Wiederhold