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Colonial railways reshaped local economies in Bosnia, but lasting gains depended on human capital, state capacity, and external competition.
๐ Why railways alone donโt drive development
Today on VoxDev, Magnus Neubert (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) & Stefan Nikoliฤ (Loughborough University) discuss how colonial railways reshaped local economies in Bosnia-Herzegovina:
https://ow.ly/Zyyt50Z9MsF
๐ Why railways alone donโt drive development
Today on VoxDev, Magnus Neubert (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) & Stefan Nikoliฤ (Loughborough University) discuss how colonial railways reshaped local economies in Bosnia-Herzegovina:
https://ow.ly/Zyyt50Z9MsF
A new adjusted and harmonised satellite nighttime-lights series for 1992โ2023 tracks local development in the Global South more accurately than the off-the-shelf data โ especially in panels and at fine spatial resolution.
Read today's article to learn more:
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The 1997 Thai financial crisis had far longer lasting consequences for financial access than aggregate measures suggest, driven by bank branch closures that were never reversed even after the broader economy recovered.
๐ The long shadow of the 1997 financial crisis in Thailand
Today on VoxDev, Marc Rysman (Boston University), Robert M. Townsend (MIT) & Christoph Walsh (Tilburg University) discuss the long lasting consequences of bank branch closures: https://ow.ly/qcqm50Z9hry
๐ The long shadow of the 1997 financial crisis in Thailand
Today on VoxDev, Marc Rysman (Boston University), Robert M. Townsend (MIT) & Christoph Walsh (Tilburg University) discuss the long lasting consequences of bank branch closures: https://ow.ly/qcqm50Z9hry
๐ An improved nighttime-lights dataset for development research
Today on VoxDev w/ Giorgio Chiovelli (Universidad de Montevideo), Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown University), Elias Papaioannou (London Business School) & Tanner Regan (George Washington University): https://ow.ly/r7gw50Z9gnl
๐ The end of aid dependency ๐ข
Today on VoxDevTalks, W. Gyude Moore (Center for Global Development) discusses why developing countries must recentre on growth diagnostics as international aid structurally declines: https://voxdev.org/topic/institutions-political-economy/end-aid-dependency
๐ The end of aid dependency ๐ข
Today on VoxDevTalks, W. Gyude Moore (Center for Global Development) discusses why developing countries must recentre on growth diagnostics as international aid structurally declines: https://voxdev.org/topic/institutions-political-economy/end-aid-dependency
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Colonial railways reshaped local economies in Bosnia, but lasting gains depended on human capital, state capacity, and external competition.
๐ Why railways alone donโt drive development
Today on VoxDev, Magnus Neubert (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) & Stefan Nikoliฤ (Loughborough University) discuss how colonial railways reshaped local economies in Bosnia-Herzegovina:
https://ow.ly/Zyyt50Z9MsF
Colonial railways reshaped local economies in Bosnia, but lasting gains depended on human capital, state capacity, and external competition.
The 1997 Thai financial crisis had far longer lasting consequences for financial access than aggregate measures suggest, driven by bank branch closures that were never reversed even after the broader economy recovered.
A new adjusted and harmonised satellite nighttime-lights series for 1992โ2023 tracks local development in the Global South more accurately than the off-the-shelf data โ especially in panels and at fine spatial resolution.
A new adjusted and harmonised satellite nighttime-lights series for 1992โ2023 tracks local development in the Global South more accurately than the off-the-shelf data โ especially in panels and at fine spatial resolution.
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The 1997 Thai financial crisis had far longer lasting consequences for financial access than aggregate measures suggest, driven by bank branch closures that were never reversed even after the broader economy recovered.
The 1997 Thai financial crisis had far longer lasting consequences for financial access than aggregate measures suggest, driven by bank branch closures that were never reversed even after the broader economy recovered.
