The Rise of Social Protection in the Global South: The Role of Foreign Aid (2022)
Report
Niño-Zarazúa, M., Horigoshi, A., Santillán Hernández, A., & Ernesto, T. (2022). The Rise of Social Protection in the Global South: The Role of Foreign Aid

More than half of the world’s population has no access to social safety nets or social insurance. What is international development aid doing to address this? This study demonstrates that, while international aid has contributed to the expansion of s... Read More about The Rise of Social Protection in the Global South: The Role of Foreign Aid.

The Logic of Collective Action -The Need to Identify Strategic Public Finance Issues Previously Neglected (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Julies, A. (2022, May). The Logic of Collective Action -The Need to Identify Strategic Public Finance Issues Previously Neglected. Paper presented at SOAS Virtual Doctoral Conference, SOAS, University of London

Informality and Pension Reforms in Bolivia: The Case of Renta Dignidad (2022)
Journal Article
Canelas, C., & Niño-Zarazúa, M. (in press). Informality and Pension Reforms in Bolivia: The Case of Renta Dignidad. The Journal of Development Studies, 58(7), 1436-1458. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2022.2061856

How social protection programmes affect work choices is a question that has been at the centre of labour economics research for decades. More recently, a scant literature has focused on the effects of social protection on work choices and informal em... Read More about Informality and Pension Reforms in Bolivia: The Case of Renta Dignidad.

Public Banks, Public Purpose, and Early Actions in the Face of Covid-19 (2022)
Journal Article
Barrowclough, D., & Marois, T. (2022). Public Banks, Public Purpose, and Early Actions in the Face of Covid-19. Review of Political Economy, 34(2), 372-390. https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2021.1996704

With the outbreak of the global Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns, economic activity came to a grinding halt as demands for financial support in health, business, and government skyrocketed. In spring 2020 we assembled a team of experts to c... Read More about Public Banks, Public Purpose, and Early Actions in the Face of Covid-19.