Blended finance---the use of public and philanthropic funding to crowd in private capital---is a potential way to finance a more sustainable world. While blended finance holds the promise of being catalytic in mobilizing vast amounts of private capital, little is known about this practice. In...

Between 1880 and 1920, the US agricultural employment share fell from 50% to 25%. However, despite aggregate demand shifting away from their sector of specialization, rural labor markets saw faster wage growth and industrialization than non-agricultural parts of the US. We propose a spatial...

40 Jahre im Dienst der Entwicklungshilfe, die Weltbank passt ihre Strategie den wechselnden Aufgaben an / Hans G. Petersmann -- Anpassung und Wachstum in der Dritten Welt, der Beitrag der Weltbank / Alden W. Clausen -- Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland und die Weltbank, Partner der...