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Weekly links Jan 12: Big Thinkers brought down to size, can you beat the World Bank at predicting poverty? Chinese minimum wage rises all get spent, three job openings, and more…

Duncan Green summarizes Stefan Dercon’s view of 10 top thinkers in development . E.g. on Acemoglu and Robinson “their policy advice is jus...

Of the 173 economies surveyed by Women, Business and the Law , about 100 economies restrict non-pregnant and non-nursing women from pursuin...

Photo: Dominic Chavez / International Finance Corporation In the early 1990s, Colombia’s road infrastructure was a maze of poorly maintaine...

Our Top Ten blog posts by readership in 2017. This post was originally posted on September 7, 2017. “I walk through three farm plots of m...

Jobs at the center of development How is the World Bank helping countries create more and better jobs? Do we need new strategi...

Money matters in education. Recent evidence from the United States shows that increased education spending results in more completed years...