development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries--Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil … industrialization only played a significant role in Vietnam …

We document several facts about workforce transitions from the informal to the formal sector in Vietnam, a fast growing …

We report the labor market effects of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation intervention at age 31. The study is a … neighborhoods of Kingston, Jamaica. Implemented in 1987-1989, treatment consisted of a two-year home-based intervention designed to … original sample 30 years after the intervention, both still living in Jamaica and migrated abroad. We find large and …

oil price shocks. We study two Caribbean economies highly vulnerable to oil price shocks, an oil-importer (Jamaica) and an …

for explaining differences in their subsequent economic development. Barbados and Jamaica provide a striking counter … 1960 to 2002, Barbados' GDP per capita grew roughly three times as fast as Jamaica's. Consequently, the income gap between … Barbados and Jamaica is now almost five times larger than at the time of independence. Since their property rights and legal …

wealth Jamaica was the most unequal place in the pre-modern world. Furthermore, all of these characteristics applied to the …

crises. But large debt reductions are rare. Jamaica stands out for reducing its debt from 144 percent of GDP to 72 percent …