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WORKING PAPERS
August 31, 2015
There are two dominant narratives about taxation. In one, taxes are the “price we pay for a civilized society” (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.). In this view taxes are not a necessary evil (as in the pairing of “death and taxes” as inevitable) but a positive good: more...
ESSAYS
July 01, 2015
There are 20 pages covering the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. And while they are inevitably bubble-wrapped in diplo-speak and hat-tipping, there is a solid package of proposals nestled within. They cover domestic public finance, private finance, international public finance, trade, debt, technology, da...
Jun
18
2015
8:30—4:30 PM
June 03, 2015
This two-day conference, organized in partnership with RISE–Research on Improving Systems of Education– provided an opportunity to explore and exchange ideas related to education systems research. RISE is an exciting new multi-country program that aims to build understanding of education systems and...
Blog Post
April 16, 2015
Lant recently blogged on the weak language on migration in the draft Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). If we want a just, equitable, and inclusive world, the most powerful tool at our disposal is migration. And yet the best the SDGs can do is call for countries to “facilita...
Blog Post
April 09, 2015
Imagine you are a Guatemalan living and working in the United States without the proper documents. Almost certainly (because it is legally required) there is a poster in the place where you work—most likely in English and Spanish—that “Equal Opportunity is the Law” and ...
Jan
23
2015
12:00—1:30 PM
January 09, 2015
In recent years, rich country development agencies have become increasingly irrelevant to the developing world – the creation of a BRICs Development Bank and the Asian Infrastructure investment bank (AIIB) led by China are recent indicators of this divergence. Why is this happening?
I...