Looking Like a State: Techniques of Persistent Failure in State Capability for Implementation // Authors: Pritchett, Woolcock, Andrews (2012)
Politics and the New Machine: What the Turn from Polls to Data Science Means for Democracy // Author: Jill Lepore (2015)
Obtaining a Driver’s License in India: An Experimental Approach to Studying Corruption // Authors: Bertrand, Djankov, Hanna, and Mullainathan (2007)
WIDER Annual Lecture 16 // Lant Pritchett (video)
Listening to Leaders: Which Development Partners Do They Prefer and Why? // Authors: Custer et al. (Aid Data, 2015)
Six Randomized Evaluations of Microcredit: Introduction and Further Steps // Authors: Banerjee, Karlan, and Zinman (2015)
Moving Beyond Microcredit // Author: Matt Mossman (2015)
Aid, Incentives, and Sustainability: An Institutional Analysis of Development Cooperation // Authors: Ostrom, Gibson, Shivakumar, and Andersson (2001)
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States // Author: Hirschman (2013)
The Food Insecurity Experience Scale: Development of a Global Standard for Monitoring Hunger Worldwide // FAO (2014)
Rescuing Girls, Investing in Girls: A Critique of Development Fantasies // Authors: Caron and Margolin (2015)
Localizing Development: Does Participation Work? // Authors: Mansuri and Rao (2013)
The Anatomy of Failure: An Ethnography of a Randomized Trial to Deepen Democracy in Rural India // Authors: Anathpur, Malik, and Rao (2014)
The Political Paradox of Cash Transfers // Author: Justin Sandefur (2015)
Philanthrocapitalism: A Self-Love Story // Why do super-rich activists mock their critics instead of listening to them? // Author: David Rieff (2015)