India’s budget increased by $5 billion/year to hire more teachers; monitoring teachers to reduce absenteeism would be 10x more cost-effective.

Aid to Africa demonstrates hysteresis and possibly addiction, Célestin Monga and Bouba Housseni show in their chapter elgaronline.com/edcollchap/boo… in the Handbook of Aid and Development elgaronline.com/edcollbook/boo… Elgar Politics

Despite aid dependence, African countries have maintained policy autonomy because of multiple motivations for aid and domestic politics in donor countries, argues Ken Opalo in his chapter in the Handbook on Aid and Development elgaronline.com/edcollbook/boo…

The tension between giving aid and curbing corruption was exacerbated during the Covid-19 pandemic, leading to new ways of balancing the two, David-Barrett and d'Emidio argue in their chapter in the Handbook of Aid and Development elgaronline.com/edcollchap/boo… Elgar Politics

📢 Handbook of Aid and Development Edited by Raj M. Desai (Georgetown SFS), Shantayanan Devarajan (Shanta Devarajan) and Jennifer L. Tobin (Jennifer Tobin) More info ➡️ e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/9781… 🆓 Read the intro ➡️ doi.org/10.4337/978180… #aid #development #policy #data

My Elgar Publishing Handbook of Aid and Development chapter on "Recipient Governments and Aid Flows" is available for FREE download for the next month. This is also true of a set of neighboring chapters on similar themes written by excellent people. Link: elgaronline.com/edcollbook/boo…

Many chapters in the Handbook of Aid and Development are free for the next month. I think these are great teaching resources, or good to quickly get up to date on various research areas you may have fallen behind on. elgaronline.com/edcollbook/boo…

Pleased to have shared the platform with the distinguished panelists. Special thanks to Shanta Devarajan Georgetown University’s MENA Forum @GU, Latifah, Zoe and all attendees.

Sri Lanka debt exchange. As long discussed, will include a governance-linked bond as well as the macro-linked bond: "The rate of interest on the Governance-Linked Bonds will be reduced by a step-down margin of 75 basis points following the KPI Measurement Date ..."

It was a pleasure to host the Global Development Network (Global Development Network) Board Meeting, chaired by Shanta Devarajan, here at the World Bank, and to connect with its esteemed board members. We had engaging discussions on forward-looking strategies for GDN, that acknowledge the evolving

The innovation of a Governance-Linked Bond #GLB in Sri Lanka — introduced by Verité Research — and the governance focused engagement by #SriLanka’s civil society, is seen as a role model for other governance stressed economies of the world. Read more about this GLB — a novel

How to encourage larger families? Michael Lokshin shows that financial incentives may not work; changes in social norms may be needed brookings.edu/articles/whats…

Pranab Bardhan compares two, lapsed democracies--India and the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/pranabbard…

My interview on the Sri Lankan crisis and stabilization on Luca Dellanna and ISMAIL ‘s podcast, Patterns and Stories patternsandstories.substack.com/?utm_source=na…

A Flawed Narrative on the Impact of Globalization on World Poverty open.substack.com/pub/pranabbard…

Application of our Journal of Public Economics paper (sciencedirect.com/science/articl…) on taxation for accountability in the post-oil era by Oman nytimes.com/2025/07/02/wor… via @NYTimes ⁦⁩

Spot on. For corroboration, see our paper on the earlier Trump trade war (“turn the other cheek”): Traders' dilemma: Developing countries' response to trade wars - Devarajan - 2021 - The World Economy - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

How to increase agricultural productivity in #SriLanka dailymirror.lk/opinion/Accoun…