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How to Undermine the Russian War Effort and Support Ukraine
This year SITE's Development Day will focus on sanctions and other strategies to curb Russian export revenues and the Ru…
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Support the Future of Ukraine
The Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) together with the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and the Emb…
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Enemies of the People
From the early days of the Soviet Union, the regime designated the educated elite as Enemies of the People. They were po…
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The Learning Crisis: Combining Incentives and Inputs to Raise Student Achievement
As school enrolment in low- and middle-income countries has increased substantially in the last couple of decades, atten…
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Intergenerational Mobility in Africa
Recent economic research suggests that childhood environments in part determine success in life. So far, most of this ev…
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Gender in Economics: From Survival to Career Opportunities
Gender inequality goes beyond discrimination and sexism. It is also a matter of efficiency and development, and therefor…
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Resource Discoveries, FDI Bonanzas and Local Multipliers: Evidence from Mozambique
Giant oil and gas discoveries in developing countries trigger FDI bonanzas. Across countries, it is shown that in the 2…
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Gender Equality and Economic Development: From Research to Action
It’s increasingly being acknowledged that gender inequality is not just a human rights issue, but of first order importa…
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Economic Gender Equality Issues in Transition Economies
Until a couple of decades ago, gender was almost a non-topic within development economics.[1] But in the 1990s research…
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