The authors examine the performance of small area welfare estimation. The method combines census and survey data to produce spatially disaggregated poverty and inequality estimates. To test the method...
A public economics framework is used to consider how pharmaceuticals should be priced when at least some of the research and development incentive comes from sales revenues. Familiar techniques of public...
Top Indian Incomes, 1922-2000 by Abhijit Banerjee and Thomas Piketty; Can We Discern the Effect of Globalization on Income Distribution? Evidence from Household Surveys by Branko Milanovic; Financing Pharmaceutical...
The World Trade Organization requires that members comply with minimum standards for intellectual property protection. These standards, embodied in the so-called Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property...
The Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics is a forum for discussion, and debate of important policy issues facing developing countries. This report for 2001-2002 focuses on two main themes...
So little is known about the rural nonfarm sector that those making policy to assist rural small-scale enterprises have done so largely "unencumbered by evidence". The Lanjouw survey of nonfarm data and...