Economic Growth

This is a joint post with Julia Clark and Christian Meyer. Industrial policy—as many have already commented—is back. (See here, here and here). The recent wave of post-financial-crisis interventionism has reignited the classic (and often heated) debate about whether governments can in...

This is a joint post with Julie Walz Since the mid-nineties, many African nations have ushered in dramatic economic and political changes. But growth in other countries is stalled due conflict, repressive regimes, and lack of infrastructure. A new publication captures the diversity across Afri...