Author: Barbara Durr
Keough School of Global Affairs, March 2024
Between 2015 and 2017, Oxfam, the international social justice organization, waged a campaign against the US poultry industry to seek better wages, healthy and safe working conditions, and worker voice for poultry processing workers. These workers, predominantly women and almost all people of color,...
Topics: Business & Economics, Civil & Human Rights, Culture & Society
Authors: Lakshmi Iyer, Eduardo Pagés
Keough School of Global Affairs, July 2022
In December 2021, US President Joe Biden faced the decision of whether to push forward with the Build Back Better Act (BBBA), which would increase US government spending by more than $2 trillion. Three previous spending bills had already been passed over the previous...
Topics: Business & Economics, COVID-19, Governance
Authors: Nick Galasso, Barbara Durr, Benjamin Topa
Keough School of Global Affairs, March 2022
Some of the world’s best coffee is grown in Ethiopia, where the livelihoods of 1.5 million small farmers depend on selling their superior beans at a fair price. But in the late 1990s and early 2000s, prices in the global coffee market plummeted. To...
Topics: Business & Economics, Policy
Authors: Diane Desierto, Fidelis Olokunboro
Pulte Institute for Global Development, Keough School of Global Affairs, November 2021
It is a continuing paradox in 2021 that Nigeria is a country of vast natural resources and energy reserves, Africa’s largest oil producer, and a powerful member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), yet poverty and inequality remain extremely rampant. Forty percent...
Topics: Business & Economics, Civil & Human Rights, Governance, Policy
Authors: Lakshmi Iyer, Francisco Rodríguez
Keough School of Global Affairs, September 2021
Venezuela entered hyperinflation at the end of 2017, preceded by several years of large budget deficits and declining oil revenues. Despite many policy attempts to bring inflation under control, including currency redenomination, introduction of a new cryptocurrency, allowing de facto dollarization, and easing price...
Topics: Business & Economics, Policy
Authors: Michael Cooper, Paul Perrin
Pulte Institute, May 2021
This policy brief was developed to assist decision-making in the field of international development on when and how to best utilize data science methods. It is meant to assist all levels of decision-making (from the field to the boardroom) as well as development actors...
Topics: Business & Economics
Authors: Bhashkar Mazumder, Maria Rosales-Rueda, Margaret (Maggie) Triyana
Kellogg Institute, December 2020
We analyze the long-run and intergenerational effects of a large-scale school building project (INPRES) that took place in Indonesia between 1974 and 1979. Specifically, we link the geographic rollout of INPRES to longitudinal data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey covering two generations. We...
Topics: Business & Economics, Education, Health
Authors: Alessandro Fergnani, Swapnil Motghare
Pulte Institute, August 2020
The majority of studies on the future of work are predictive in nature, often taking a bird’s-eye view that overlooks the importance of local context. This brief presents six scenarios of the futures of work in South Bend that emphasize stress-point events and phenomena...
Topics: Business & Economics, Culture & Society
Authors: Tijan L. Bah, Catia Batista
Kellogg Institute, June 2020
Irregular migration to Europe by sea, though risky, remains one of the most popular migration options for many sub-Saharan Africans. This study examines the determinants of irregular migration from West Africa to Europe. We implemented an incentivized lab-in-thefield experiment in rural Gambia, the country...
Topics: Business & Economics, Migration
