World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 31, No. 3

What Is Considered Development Economics? Commonalities and Differences in University Courses around the Developing World - David McKenzie and Anna Luisa Paffhausen

Does Financial Education Impact Financial Literacy and Financial Behavior, and If So, When? -Tim Kaiser and Lukas Menkhoff

A First Step up the Energy Ladder? Low Cost Solar Kits and Household’s Welfare in Rural Rwanda -Michael Grimm, Anicet Munyehirwe, Jörg Peters, and Maximiliane Sievert

The Cost of Fear: The Welfare Effect of the Risk of Violence in Northern Uganda - Marc Rockmore

Identifying Gazelles: Expert Panels vs. Surveys as a Means to Identify Firms with Rapid Growth Potential -Marcel Fafchamps and Christopher Woodruff

On Minimizing the Risk of Bias in Randomized Controlled Trials in Economics - Alex Eble, Peter Boone, and Diana Elbourne

Donor Competition for Aid Impact, and Aid Fragmentation - Kurt Annen and Luc Moers

The Impacts of India’s Food Security Policies on South Asian Wheat and Rice Markets - Nelson Benjamin Villoria and Elliot Wamboka Mghenyi

Effect of Lengthening the School Day on Mother’s Labor Supply -Dante Contreras and Paulina Sepúlveda

Can Agricultural Interventions Improve Child Nutrition? Evidence from Tanzania - Anna Folke Larsen and Helene Bie Lilleør

The Impact of Positive and Negative Income Changes on the Height and Weight of Young Children - Thomas Buser, Hessel Oosterbeek, Erik Plug, Juan Ponce, and José Rosero

The Effect of a Transfer Program for the Elderly in Mexico City on Co-Residing Children’s School Enrollment - Emilio Gutierrez, Laura Juarez, and Adrian Rubli

Review of “The Economy of Ghana Sixty Years after Independence”

An independent central bank has the ability to set monetary policy free of political influence…

Education, Internal Remittances and Safety Nets in Africa: Some Evidence

This paper uses LSS data from Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana to investigate the effects of education on social safety nets proxied by internal migrant remittances in Africa.

The Economic Development Benefits of Human Mobility to Source Countries

Labor mobility is particularly significant in the case of the GCC; the region is host to around 15 million expatriate workers who generate US $80 billion in annual remittances each year and support and estimate 150 million dependents in their various home countries.

The Returns to the Brain Drain and Brain Circulation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some computations using data from Ghana

We look at the decision of the government or “central planner” in the allocation of scarce governmental resources for tertiary education, as well as that for the individual. We provide estimates of the net present values, or cost and benefits.

Social Safety Nets: The Role of Education, Remittances and Migration

We study the role of education as a social protection mechanism. We compare the effectiveness of direct cash handouts in comparison to education over the long-term in reducing the vulnerability to poverty.

Review of African Household Survey Data on Social Safety-Nets and the Role of Education, Remittances and Migration

The question of the social protection of the poor and social safety-nets in Africa has recently received attention from the European Union, United Nations agencies, as well as in many academic papers and conferences.

Is the Brain Drain Good for Africa?

We build upon recent literature to do several exercises to assess benefits and costs of the brain drain to Africa. Contrary to a lot of the worries expressed in the media and in aid agencies, the brain drain is probably a net benefit to the source countries…

The New Growth Theory

This paper very briefly summarizes some of the new growth theory in economics. The emphasis will be on the role of knowledge in the growth process.