Development environment complementarity under weak institutions
Developing countries are facing mounting pressures to incorporate environmental concerns into their policy reform agendas, leading to concerns that traditional development assistance may be crowded
Evidence-based policymaking in the US and UK
Evidence-based policymaking involves making policy decisions grounded on, or influenced by, the best available objective evidence. This column takes stock of recent developments in this
The effects of mandatory profit-sharing on workers and firms: Evidence from France
Governments around the world provide fiscal incentives to firms to adopt profit-sharing arrangements between firms and workers. This column discusses lessons that can be drawn
Education expansion, college choice, and labour market success
Women continue to be underrepresented in STEM-related fields, making their university degree selection process highly relevant to discussions of gender inequality. This column uses data
Oil prices up 3% to 4-month high on US crude stock drop, Russian refinery attacks
Oil prices rose about 3% to a four-month high on Wednesday on a surprise withdrawal in U.S. crude inventories, a bigger-than-expected drop in U.S. gasoline
Exclusive: Samsung to use chip making tech favoured by SK Hynix as AI chip race heats up, sources say
Samsung Electronics plans to use a chip making technology championed by rival SK Hynix, five people said, as the world’s top memory chipmaker seeks to catch
Arm’s shares rise as Wall Street eyes IPO lock-up expiration
Shares of Arm Holdings , the British chip designer backed by Softbank Group gained 2.1% to $129.50 on Tuesday as markets braced for increased trading activity
Global electric car sales in February hurt by China’s New Year celebrations
Global sales of fully electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) rose at a tepid rate of 3% in February versus the same period last year
Intel survived bid to halt millions in sales to China’s Huawei, sources say
Intel has survived an effort to halt hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of chip sales to Huawei, two people familiar with the matter said,
The intergenerational health effects of forced displacement: Japanese American incarceration during WWII
The forcible removal of populations has both immediate and long-run consequences for the affected populations. The economics literature has tended to focus on the labour
