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The Chandler Papers: Building and sustaining trust in central banks
Central banks must be trustworthy and predictable to maintain economic stability. This paper explores the growing roles of central banks, emphasising the need for better integration of trust-building theories and practices.
The Crossroads of Geopolitics: The Intersection of Security and Economic Interests – Policymaking in a More Complex and Uncertain World
This report sets out the conclusions of the Heywood Fellowship’s inquiry: how policymaking at the intersection of economic and security interests needs to change to keep ahead geopolitical and wider global trends.
Beyond the Silos: Analytical Capabilities at the Intersection of Economics and Security in 20th Century Britain
The UK grapples with complex policy issues at the intersection of economics and national security. This paper, part of a series, explores historical challenges and emphasises the need for government reform to enhance analytical capabilities, calling for senior officials' support to effectively address modern policy challenges.
Zambia’s Constituency Development Fund: Policy considerations
Wellbeing and macroeconomics: a SAGE approach
Timor-Leste’s drivers of growth and sectoral transformation
Virtual migration through online freelancing: evidence from Bangladesh
Strengthening development finance in fragile contexts
Fiscal regimes and digital transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Zero-sum mindset and its discontents
Socio-political consequences of regional economic divergence in Britain: 1983-2018
Regions and nations of Britain have become still more economically divided in recent decades. This paper assesses the extent to which social and political attitudes in different regions and nations of Britain have indeed become more polarised, in line with regional economic divergence.
Governance to support a global green deal
To achieve global climate goals and build a more resilient economy, the rules and institutions of global economic governance must align around a green transition.
COVID-19 and disruption of the digital economy: evidence from low and middle-income countries
(Project report) Coping with COVID-19: Protecting lives, employment and incomes in Myanmar
(Policy brief) Coping with COVID 19: Protecting lives, employment, and incomes in Myanmar
Informality and COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa
Designed to succeed: building authorising environments for fast-growing cities
Scarcity and cognitive function around payday: a conceptual and empirical analysis
Psychological and social motivations in microfinance contracts: theory and evidence
Sex workers, stigma and self-image: evidence from Kolkata brothels
Public goods and future audiences: acting as role models?
Impôts sur le foncier: pour valoriser des revenus municipaux inexploités
Pioneering firms in fragile and conflict-affected states
Data-oriented urban transport reform in middle-income and developing cities
Emotion and reason in human decision-making
Informal settlements and housing markets
Oxford Government Review 3: The Future of Government
Land rights: Unlocking land for urban development
Upping the ante: The equilibrium effects of unconditional grants to private schools
Trust and its determinants: evidence from the Trustlab experiment
Preferences for redistribution in the US, Italy, Norway: an experiment study
Exploiting behavioural insights to foster global cooperation
Land and property taxes: Exploiting untapped municipal revenues
Where do fairness preferences come from? Norm transmission in a teen friendship network
On culture and corruption
Humans reciprocate intentional harm by discriminating against group peers
Organising the unorganised
When the state gives back: trust and trustworthiness after a land restitution programme
GDP per capita versus median household income: what gives rise to divergence over time?
Models, regimes, and the evolution of middle incomes in OECD countries
Striving for balance in economics: towards a theory of the social determination of behaviour
Compliance behaviour in networks: evidence from a field experiment
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