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What Determines Purchasing Power Parity Exchange Rates? - Working Paper 416

August 25, 2015
To better understand the large variation in price levels between countries beyond income levels and their contribution to economies’ competitiveness in the global market, we report on a cross-country analysis of national price levels, using data on 168 economies from the most recent 2011 Inter...
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If the Cost of Sending Remittances Goes Up and No One Is Around to Measure It, Did It Really Happen?

August 25, 2015
The World Bank does maintain an impressively large database of remittance prices around the world, called Remittance Prices Worldwide, covering over 200 remittance corridors. It is a massive undertaking which involves surveying hundreds of remittance companies across 32 different countries roughly e...
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Climate Change and Development in Three Charts

August 18, 2015
The story of climate change and development can be told in three simple pie charts: Developing countries are hurt most by climate change (chart #1). Historically, developed countries were most responsible for climate change (chart #2). But now, developing countries are most responsible for climate c...
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Forget the Fish, Forget the Fishing Rod. Give a Man Some Capital – Podcast with Chris Blattman

August 10, 2015
Give a man a fish, the old adage runs, and he’ll eat for a day, but teach a man to fish and he will eat forever. Professor Chris Blattman doesn’t think we should do either. “We’re saying don’t give a man a fish. Don’t teach a man to fish. Give them the capital to ...