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Can the Poor Be Organized? Evidence from Rural India

March 2013, Raj M. Desai and Shareen Joshi

India’s Protests as a Social "Stress Test"

December 28, 2012, Raj M. Desai and Shareen Joshi

Why the End of British Aid to India Won’t Matter

November 21, 2012, Raj M. Desai and Natasha Ledlie

Campaign 2012: Arab Awakening

September 25, 2012

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The Challenge of a Reform Endowment

September 25, 2012, Raj M. Desai

Scaling Up in Agriculture, Rural Development, and Nutrition

June 2012, Johannes F. Linn, Laurence Chandy and Raj M. Desai

After the Spring: Economic Perspectives in the Arab World

February 2012, Magdi Amin, Ragui Assaad, Nazar al-Baharna, Kemal Dervis, Raj M. Desai, Navtej S. Dhillon, Ahmed Galal, Hafez Ghanem, Carol Graham, Daniel Kaufmann, Homi Kharas, John Page, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Katherine Sierra, and Tarik M. Yousef

Can Producer Associations Make Agriculture Sustainable? Evidence from Farmer Development Centers in India

January 11, 2012, Raj M. Desai and Shareen Joshi

Václav Havel’s Economic Legacy

December 19, 2011, Raj M. Desai

The Economic Imperatives of the Arab Spring

October 26, 2011

The Costs of Political Influence: Firm-Level Evidence From Developing Countries

October 6, 2011, Raj M. Desai and Anders Olofsgård

Turmoil in the Middle East: A Live Web Chat with Raj Desai

February 23, 2011

Web Chat: Turmoil in the Middle East

February 23, 2011, Raj M. Desai

@ Brookings Podcast: Unrest Spreads in the Middle East

February 18, 2011, Raj M. Desai

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Is the Arab Authoritarian Bargain Collapsing?

February 9, 2011, Raj M. Desai, Anders Olofsgård and Tarik Yousef

An Immediate Exit for Mubarak?

February 4, 2011, Raj M. Desai

Authoritarian Bargain Collapses in Middle East

February 2, 2011, Raj M. Desai

A Suggestion for the IMF: Embrace Regionalism

November 8, 2010, Raj M. Desai and James Raymond Vreeland

Predictable Aid from G-20 Countries Can Reduce Conflict in the Developing World

November 2, 2010

Financial Regionalism: Lessons and Next Steps

October 13, 2010

Global Food Assistance and the Fight Against Childhood Malnutrition

October 12, 2010

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@ Brookings Podcast: Assessing the Millennium Development Goals

September 24, 2010, Raj M. Desai

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Reaching the Millennium Development Goals

September 17, 2010, Raj M. Desai

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The Determinants of Foreign Aid Volatility

September 2010, Raj M. Desai and Homi Kharas

The Political Economy of Urban Poverty in Developing Countries: Theories, Issues, and an Agenda for Research

June 2010, Raj M. Desai