Economists broadly agree on many key economic policy issues, but economics as a discipline has provided much less guidance on why and how economic policy reform occurs and how to develop institutional mechanisms that enable governments to adopt “good” economic policy. Political scientists...

There are few countries where ‘initial conditions' are as unfavorable as those of Laos. It is a very poor, least developed country. It is landlocked, sharing its international borders with five neighbors. It has the world's highest per capita stock of unexploded ordinance, a legacy of the Indo...