The world has been changing and developing rapidly with advanced technology and the enhancement of humans’ living standards. Economics is one of the disciplines that works to define “development,” determine nations’ current stage of development, and design policies to work effectively...

Capacity development is one of the IMF’s core activities. Its impact is monitored through a Results-Based Management framework. Using for the first time the resulting dataset, the paper investigates how the likelihood of achieving targeted outcomes correlates with macroeconomic conditions and...

We investigate how firms adapt to trademark protection, an extensively used but underexamined form of IP protection, by exploring a historical precedent: China’s trademark law of 1923—an unanticipated and disapproved response to end foreign privileges in China. By exploiting a unique, newly...

This study assess the impact of a classroom-based positive psychology intervention on improving academic performance by conducting a Randomised Control Trial (RCT) with 899 school-aged children (10-14) years across 29 schools in Pakistan. The study finds limited evidence that the RCT had an...

The need of organization and the importance of internal control in a credit institution, which would guarantee high level of reliability corresponding to the nature and scale of operations carried out, is enshrined in Russian legislation. The key aspect of internal control in a credit...

This work contains an overview of national and foreign authors working in the field of innovation ecosystems management. It presents components of the model of innovation ecosystem management, a set of compulsory elements of the model, the basic principles and functional components of the model

Government bureaucracies in low- and middle-income countries often suffer from both corruption and slow public-service delivery. Can an information system – providing information about delays to the responsible bureaucrats and their supervisors – improve delivery speed? Paying bribes for...

This working paper shares ideas presented in a research sprint exploring cooperative approaches to data ownership and governance led by Harvard University’s Berkman Klein and The New School, which we presented at the Platform Cooperative Consortium Conference, 2021.Our research project...

The study provides insights into how tourism can be managed to improve financial access in sub-Saharan Africa. The empirical evidence is based on the generalised method of moments. To make this assessment, inequality dynamics (i.e. the Gini coefficient, the Atkinson index and Palma ratio) are...

We study the impacts of government accountability on development. Using a panel of 64 young democracies from 1974 to 2010, we provide evidence that the young democracies with stronger institutions of accountability have lower infant mortality rates, a widely used indicator of development. While...