Research and Commentary

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

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

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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• Audio

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

@ Brookings Podcast: Assessing the Millennium Development Goals

September 24, 2010, Raj M. Desai

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• Audio

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

Are Davos Man's Days Numbered?

January 26, 2010, James Raymond Vreeland and Raj M. Desai

Iraq's Economy Needs More Than Security

October 23, 2009, Raj M. Desai

Do Philanthropic Citizens Behave Like Governments?

October 2009, Homi Kharas and Raj M. Desai

The Logic of Authoritarian Bargains

March 2009, Anders Olofsgård, Raj M. Desai and Tarik Yousef