Media Coverage

“Why Africa’s Development Model Puzzles Economists” The Economist, August 2017

“Chinese Investment in Africa” VoxDev.org, July 2017.

“Exploring Pathways to Economic Development” NBER Digest, National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2017.

“Driving Domestic Investment: FDI Use and Source Matter” March 13, 2017.

“Why Latin America and Africa Struggle to Grow” February 1, 2017.

“The Myth of de-Industrialisation in Sub-Saharan Africa” published in This is Africa a publication of the Financial Times, May 29, 2014.

“Why are Workers Getting Poorer? Estimating the Impact of Trade and Offshoring Using the Current Population Surveys,” New York Times, April 2, 2014.

“Africa’s Quiet Agricultural Revolution,” published in This is Africa a publication of the Financial Times, January 6, 2014

“Is China Driving the Wrong Kind of Structural Change in the U.S.?” Dani Rodrik’s Weblog, 2011

“Offshoring, International Trade, and American Workers,” Ann Harrison and Margaret McMillan, NBER Reporter Number 4, National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2011.

“Trade, Employment and Structural Change,”  Let’s Talk Development, World Bank Blog, 2010

“International trade, offshoring, and US wages,” CEPR, August 31, 2009. (with Avi Ebenstein, Ann Harrison and Shannon Phillips)

“Ending Famine by Ignoring the Experts?” Dani Rodrik’s Weblog, 2007.

“Does Food Aid Harm the Poor?” NBER Digest summary of this paper: (with James Levinsohn)

“My Policies or Yours: Do OECD Agricultural Policies Affect Poverty in Developing Countries?” New York Times (with Nava Ashraf and Alex Zwane), 2004.