Global Working Papers

Aerial. Stone town, Zanzibar, Tanzania.

Property tax compliance in Tanzania: Can nudges help?

Matthew Collin, Vincenzo Di Maro, David K. Evans, and Fredrick Manang

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

A scientist prepares samples in the XBI biological laboratory on the campus of the international research facility European XFEL. Among other things, research is being carried out there on the structure of a protein that carries the coronavirus in its envelope. The European XFEL operates the world's largest X-ray laser.

A proposal for long-term COVID-19 control

William A. Haseltine

Friday, August 20, 2021

Table with laptop in home office interior.

Remote work wanted? Evidence from job postings during COVID-19

José Morales-Arilla and Carlos Daboin Contreras

Thursday, August 12, 2021

A man walks inside the World Trade Center after the government announced that private and state companies will reopen their offices after almost two months of lockdown amidst concerns about the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Colombo, Sri Lanka May 11, 2020. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte

Social and economic impact of COVID-19

Eduardo Levy Yeyati and Federico Filippini

Tuesday, June 8, 2021

A worker from a telecommunications company inspects a 5G technology device connected to an experimental 5G network, in Santiago, Chile March 22, 2021. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

Bridging the global digital divide: A platform to advance digital development in low- and middle-income countries

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Safety deposit box

What lies beneath: Evidence from leaked account data on how elites use offshore banking

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

12/19/2020 - Bergamo - last weekend in the yellow zone before Christmas; entrances limited by the local police in via XX Settembre to avoid gatherings, controls by the police intensified. long queues outside the shops and lots of crowds on the street. Editorial Usage Only (Photo by IPA/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

How COVID-19 changed the world: G-7 evidence on a recalibrated relationship between market, state, and society

Katharina Lima de Miranda and Dennis J. Snower

Thursday, April 29, 2021

A person receives a dose of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, during mass vaccine inside of Hermanos Lopez Rayon sports center, a designated priority vaccination center for elderly over 60 years in the Uruapan town. On March 10, 2021 in Michoacan, Mexico (Photo by Eyepix/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Pandemic preparedness and response: Beyond the WHO’s Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator

Kaushik Basu, Lawrence Gostin, and Nicole Hassoun

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Lima, Peru.- In the photos taken on November 20, 2020, it shows rural families, dedicated to different livestock activities in Lima, Peru. According to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), the informal employment rate at the national level increased from 73% in the first quarter of this year to 75.2% in the third quarter, thus reaching the value highest in more than eight years. Today, almost eight out of ten jobs are informal.

Debt distress and development distress: Twin crises of 2021

Homi Kharas and Meagan Dooley

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Server room

Technology, growth, and inequality: Changing dynamics in the digital era

Friday, February 12, 2021

An employee of online fashion retailer Zozo Inc, poses with Zozoglass and its smartphone application, used to measure skin tone for ordering cosmetics online, during a demonstration at the company's office in Tokyo, Japan, January 28, 2021. Picture taken January 28, 2021. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

Innovation quality and global collaborations: Insights from Japan

Dany Bahar and Selen Özdoğan

Friday, January 29, 2021

Guatemala City, Guatemala.- In the photos, it shows the indigenous rural areas of Guatemala during the crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic. A special UN report reveals that Latin American and Caribbean countries face the highest per capita levels of Covid-19; in addition to a fall in its economy of 9.1 percent for the region in 2020, which will undoubtedly be the largest in 100 years, which will translate into 45 million more people living in poverty compared to last year, affecting more the countries of Mexico, Nicaragua and Guatemala.

Global development cooperation in a COVID-19 world

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Lima, Peru.- Peruvians claim the new bonus granted by the state as an economic aid in the midst of the pandemic on December 10, 2020. More than 52 thousand workers of micro-enterprises benefited from the bonus of S / 760 for perfect suspension of labor, economic compensation that is delivered to mitigate the economic impact generated by Covid-19.

COVID-19’s legacy of debt and debt service in developing countries

Homi Kharas and Meagan Dooley

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Antananarivo / Madagascar - October 21, 2011: Laundry hangs on clothes lines on balconies of a run down high-rise apart.ment building

Poverty hotspots and the correlates of subnational development

Raj M. Desai, Homi Kharas, and Selen Özdoğan

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Biden Harris

‘All in’ climate diplomacy: How a Biden-Harris administration can leverage city, state, business, and community climate action

Thomas Hale and Nathan Hultman

Friday, November 20, 2020