This paper tested competing arguments that foreign aid can substantially aggravate the patterns of underdevelopment in previous British colonies. I followed the Center for Global Development in taking into account Amartya Sen’s...
Today the vast majority of Jews of Moroccan descent hail from Israel. In a 16-year period between 1948 and 1964, 220,000 of Morocco’s 250,000 Jews emigrated from the country.1 Most, but not all of these Jews settled in the...
This paper examines the impact of decentralization on political corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa. Most of the recent literature finds that decentralization reduces corruption, an outcome which is often attributed to the ability...