We study the structure of international aid coordination by creating and analyzing a tripartite network of donor organizations, recipient countries and development issues using web-based information. We develop a measure of coordination and find that it is moderate, achieving about 60% of its...

Intro -- Contents -- Part 1: What, Why and How? -- Section 1: What Do We Mean by Economic Complexity? -- Section 2: How Do We Measure Economic Complexity? -- Section 3: Why Is Economic Complexity Important? -- Section 4: How Is Complexity Different from Other Approaches? -- Section 5: How Does...

Tourism is one of the most important economic activities in the world: for many countries it represents the single largest product in their export basket. However, it is a product difficult to chart: “exporters” of tourism do not ship it abroad, but they welcome importers inside the country....

Are regions poor because they have bad institutions or are they poor because they are disconnected from the social channels through which technology diffuses? This paper tests institutional and technological theories of economic convergence by looking at income convergence across Colombian...