The Office of the Chief Economist brings together knowledge and expertise across major sectors of development. We seek to produce and feature papers that provides sustainable and innovative solutions for the development challenges in South Asian countries.
2023
Election-induced fiscal policy cycles in emerging market and developing economies
Franziska Ohnsorge, Jakob De Haan & Shu Yu
What Explains Global Inflation
Franziska Ohnsorge, Jongrim Ha, Ayhan Kose & Hakan Yilmazkuday
Forecasting Industrial Commodity Prices : Literature Review and a Model Suite
Franziska Ohnsorge, Francisco Arroyo-Marioli, Jeetendra Khadan & Takefumi Yamazaki
The Distributional Impact of Inflation in South Asia: An Empirical Approach
Vanessa Olakemi Dovonou & Zoe Leiyu Xie
Are Carbon Taxes Good for South Asia?
Valerie Mercer-Blackman, Lazar Milivojevic & Victor Mylonas
Natural Disasters and Fiscal Drought
Lazar Milivojevic
The links between COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and non-pharmaceutical interventions
Maurizio Bussolo, Nayantara Sarma & Iván Torre
How Selling Online Is Affecting Informal Firms in South Asia
Maurizio Bussolo, Akshay Dixit, Anne Golla, Ananya Kotia, Jean N. Lee, Prema Narasimhan & Siddharth Sharma
2022
Social Norms and Gender Equality
Maurizio Bussolo, Jessy Amarachi Ezebuihe, Ana Maria Munoz Boudet, Stavros Poupakis, Tasmia Rahman & Nayantara Sarma
A Dynamic Model of Fiscal Decentralization and Public Debt Accumulation
Si Guo, Yun Pei & Zoe Xie
Dynamics and synchronization of global equilibrium interest rates
Robert C. M. Beyer & Lazar Milivojevic
Trade Agreements in South Asia: Towards a Successful Story in the Developing World
Sebastian Franco Bedoya
2021
Understanding FDI Spillovers in the Presence of GVCs
Valerie Mercer-Blackman, Wei Xiang & Fahad Khan
The Impact of United States Tax Policies on Sectoral Foreign Direct Investment to Asia
Valerie Mercer-Blackman & Sheila Camingue
The Causal Effects of Long-Term PM2.5 Exposure on COVID-19 in India
Takahiro Yamada, Hiroyuki Yamada & Muthukumara Mani
Poverty and Migration in the Digital Age: Experimental Evidence on Mobile Banking in Bangladesh
Jean N. Lee, Jonathan Morduch, Saravana Ravindran, Abu Shonchoy & Hassan Zaman
It takes two (to make things right): Women's Empowerment and Couple Concordance in South Asia
Maurizio Bussolo, Nayantara Sarma & Anaise Williams
Narrowing the gender gap in mobile banking
Jean N.Lee, Jonathan Morduch, Saravana Ravindran & Abu S.Shonchoy
Workers at Risk: Panel Data Evidence on the COVID-19 Labor Market Crisis in India
Maurizio Bussolo, Ananya Kotia & Siddharth Sharma
2020
The Drivers of Firms' Compliance to Environmental Regulations: The Case of India
Sebastian Franco-Bedoya & Muthukumara Mani
Regional Integration in South Asia: Implications for Green Growth, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Gender Wage Gap
Muthukumara Mani, Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan & Deepika Wadhwa
Valuing Unpaid Care Work in Bhutan
Jooyeoun Suh, Changa Dorji, Valerie Mercer-Blackman & Aimee Hampel-Milagrosa
Migration, externalities, and the diffusion of COVID-19 in South Asia
Jean N.Lee, Mahreen Mahmud, Jonathan Morduch, Saravana Ravindran & Abu S.Shonchoy
Fiscal policy and economic activity in South Asia
Robert C. M. Beyer & Lazar Milivojevic
Lights Out ? COVID-19 Containment Policies and Economic Activity
Robert C. M. Beyer, Tarun Jain & Sonalika Sinha
Examining the Economic Impact of COVID-19 in India through Daily Electricity Consumption and Nighttime Light Intensity
Robert C. M. Beyer, Sebastian Franco-Bedoya & Virgilio Galdo
2019
Employment in South Asia: A New Dataset
Robert C. M. Beyer, Milagros Chocce & Martin Rama
Fiscal Policy and Economic Activity in South Asia
Robert C. M. Beyer & Lazar Milivojevic
Inflation Dynamics and Global Value Chains
François de Soyres & Sebastian Franco Bedoya
2018
Paris Climate Agreement and the Global Economy: Winners and Losers
Deepika Wadhwa, Muthukumara Mani, Zekarias Hussein & Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan
Wider Economic Benefits of Investments in Transport Corridors and the Role of Complementary Policies
Martin Melecky, Siddharth Sharma & Hari Subhash
Measuring districts' monthly economic activity from outer space
Robert C. M. Beyer, Esha Chhabra, Virgilio Galdo & Martin Rama