European Enlightenment thinkers were right in stressing the political dimension of inequality, rather than referring to "natural differences" as some others did after them in the 19th or 20th centuries. Drawing from recent theoretical and empirical contributions in social sciences and in...

This essay is concerned with the broader canvas of economic reforms in the Philippines viewed from the framework of political economy. The first part provides a brief discussion of the rationale for economic reforms. The second part presents a tableau of economic policies in perspective over a...

Vice President Gloria will become President if Joseph Estrada is removed from office or he resigns as a result of his impeachment. This paper is about the background of Macapagal who graduated with a Ph.D. in Economics from the U.P. School of Economics. The paper is divided into four sections....

(english) The classical and more recent theories on development all fail to explain Madagascar’s long-running economic underperformance. This paper proposes a reinterpretation of Malagasy history based on the analytical framework of political economy. Our analyses point to the fact that,...

(english) This paper is an attempt to assess the relevance of the use of the North, Wallis and Weingast (2009) framework to explain the performances of Burkina Faso in terms of economic growth and development. The political history of Burkina Faso has been very unstable until president Campaoré...

(english) This last decade has seen the emergence of a new field of research in development economics: randomised control trials. This paper explores the contrast between the (many) limitations and (very narrow) real scope of these methods and their success in sheer number and media coverage....