"This book provides a fresh look at the key challenges of policy formulation for a small country like Sri Lanka in a rapidly globalising world. It goes beyond economics to include history, politics, and ideology of different governments of the country overtime and extends its analysis to other...

This paper studies the aggregate effects of supply chain disruptions in the post-pandemic period in a heterogeneous-firm, general equilibrium model with input-output linkages and a rich set of supply chain frictions: uncertain shipping delays, fixed order costs, and storage costs. Firms...

This paper aims to estimate the number of people globally who do-and do not-have government-recognized proof of identity ("ID"). This work is an update to the most recent estimate produced in 2018, which found that just under 1 billion people did not have an ID. The World Bank's Identification...

This article examines the efforts towards implementing minimum labor standards in global supply chains through the lens of corporate social responsibility. The adoption of supplier codes of conduct has driven efforts to monitor and enforce standards within these chains. Nonetheless, challenges...