In the past decade, Treasury deployees have accumulated considerable experience of the theory and practice of capacity development in economic policy agencies in various countries in the Asia Pacific region. In this paper, we address issues that we grappled with in our roles as capacity...

Using German panel data, we investigate how well individuals predict their own future life satisfaction. The context is the decade following the 1990 reunification of Germany, which provided a large shock to the future prospects of the inhabitants of the former East Germany. We find that the...