Grounded in empirically-based country case studies, this new study provides a sober assessment of what decentralisation can achieve. The current momentum for decentralisation of government in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world is unparalleled, but are the benefits claimed by its...

This paper examines irregular South-South migration from China to Ghana, and the role it has played in transforming livelihoods and broader developmental landscapes. It looks at the entry from the mid-2000s of approximately 50,000 Chinese migrants into the small-scale gold mining sector. They...

This paper accesses the mortgage origination processing system of a major national mortgage lender in the 1988-89 period to empirically measure mortgage interest rate differences paid by Asians, Hispanics, and African Americans. The calculated interest rate differences control for differences in...