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Blog Post
June 18, 2024
Roughly 40 percent of the world’s refugees live in countries where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) individuals face legal persecution. 64 countries worldwide criminalize consensual same-sex relations, with sentences ranging from imprisonment to the death penalty.
Contrary ...
BRIEFS
June 17, 2024
The International Development Association (IDA)—the World Bank’s arm that works in low- and lower-middle-income countries—is one of the largest sources of development assistance for the world’s poorest countries. It is also a crucial tool for resource-constrained governments to borrow on affordable ...
Blog Post
June 14, 2024
Reuters reports today that the US Defense Department spread anti-vaccine messaging across Southeast Asia during COVID as part of an effort to discredit Chinese-manufactured vaccines. At a minimum, the Administration should amend EO 12333 to mandate that no US intelligence or psychological warfare op...
Blog Post
June 14, 2024
For the last four years, CGD has been involved in a range of activities in a bid to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), both internally and externally. This blog outlines some of these activities, what we at CGD have been learning, and what our plans are going forward. We would love inpu...
Blog Post
June 13, 2024
The WBG thus deserves recognition for the progress it has made towards rewarding men and women equally and for not penalizing motherhood, at least in terms of compensation as analyzed in Das and Joubert. This is in sharp contrast to a growing literature that finds that much of the gender wage-gap no...
WORKING PAPERS
June 12, 2024
Latin America is often regarded as an “economic failure,” a region prone to crises, with high inflation and other symptoms of macroeconomic instability. But that picture is largely one of the past. Analyzing six areas of macroeconomic management and eight macroeconomic outcomes, this paper shows the...
Blog Post
June 05, 2024
Addressing the unprecedented levels of irregular migration requires a fundamental shift in understanding the problem: People come whenever there are jobs to be filled in the American economy. It is true today, and it has been true for decades. That is main finding from my new study analyzing nearly ...
WORKING PAPERS
June 05, 2024
This study investigates the link between Southwest US border crossings and labor market tightness, measured by the job openings to unemployed ratio, over nearly 25 years (2000–2023). Analyzing monthly data, it finds a strong positive correlation, suggesting that increased border crossings align with...