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 …

This paper reviews briefly the arguments for capital market liberalization, and identifies their
theoretical and empirical weaknesses. This provides the foundations for the argument for …

This study revisits the economic growth–energy consumption thesis by investigating the
impact of economic, social, and political globalization on the economic growth–energy …

Populism may seem like it has come out of nowhere, but it has been on the rise for a while. I
argue that economic history and economic theory both provide ample grounds for …

MILTON Friedman in 1982 hailed Chile as an" economic miracle." Nearly a decade earlier,
Chile had turned to policies that have since been widely emulated across the globe. The …

We present and describe a new dataset of capital control restrictions on both inflows and
outflows of ten categories of assets for 100 countries over the period 1995 to 2013. Building …

Academic conventions divide up the seamless web of the real social world into separate
spheres, each with its own theorising; this is a necessary and practical way of gaining …

The study develops an index of globalization covering its three main dimensions: economic
integration, social integration, and political integration. Using panel data for 123 countries in …

During the last few decades, human dynamics, institutional change, political relations and
the global environment have become successively more intertwined. While increased global …

We show that equity market liberalizations, on average, lead to a 1% increase in annual real
economic growth. The effect is robust to alternative definitions of liberalization and does not …