Over 1 billion people currently live in slums, with the number of slum dwellers only expected
to grow in the coming decades. The vast majority of slums are located in and around urban …

The effects of trade and trade liberalisation on the social determinants of health are not well
known. Here, we outline a conceptual framework of links between trade liberalisation and …

A contribution of foreign direct investment to economic growth is possibly one of the widely
examined topics in academic research in the last five decades. However, few studies have …

Based on a sample of 76 developing countries over 1990–2019, we assess the effect of
adopting mobile money on consumption volatility using entropy balancing. We reveal that …

An incisive look at the global economic crisis, our flawed response, and the implications for
the world's future prosperity. The Great Recession, as it has come to be called, has impacted …

Creating the European monetary union between diverse and unequal nation states is
arguably one of the biggest social experiments in history. This book offers an explanation of …

The recent wave of financial globalization since the mid-1980s has been marked by a surge
in capital flows among industrial countries and, more notably, between industrial and …

The literature on the benefits and costs of financial globalization for developing countries
has exploded in recent years, but along many disparate channels with a variety of …

We provide cross-country evidence that rejects the traditional interpretation of the natural
resource curse. First, growth depends negatively on volatility of unanticipated output growth …

This paper proposes a methodology for measuring credit booms and uses it to identify credit
booms in emerging and industrial economies over the past four decades. In addition, we use …