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Working papers

2026

  1. Tania Masi & Antonio Savoia & Kunal Sen, 2026, "Factor income taxation and the governance dividend," WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER), number wp-2026-22.

2025

  1. Yin-Fang Zhang & Antonio Savoia & Kunal Sen, 2025, "Curse or blessing? The effect of inequality on financial development," WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER), number wp-2025-59.

2024

  1. Antonio Savoia & Kunal Sen & Abrams M.E. Tagem, 2024, "Institutional change and persistence: What does the long-run evidence tell us?," WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER), number wp-2024-39.
  2. Carlos Gradín & Gabriela Zapata-Román, 2024, "Unpacking inequality of opportunity in Chile: the role of birth circumstances using a Shapley decomposition," Working Papers, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, number 676, Sep.

2023

  1. Adhikari, Roshan & Kramer, Berber & Ward, Patrick S. & Foster, Timothy & Sharma, Varun & Gaur, Pushkar & Pattnaik, Subhransu, 2023, "A gender-responsive approach to designing agricultural risk management bundles," Project notes, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), number May 2023.
  2. Antonio Andreoni & Nishal Robb & Sophie van Huellen, 2023, "Financialisation of Non-Financial Corporations in South Africa: An integrated framework to study variations across sectors, value chains and firms," Working Papers, Department of Economics, SOAS University of London, UK, number 255, Feb, revised Feb 2023.

2022

  1. Antonio Savoia & Kunal Sen & Abrams M.E. Tagem, 2022, "Constraints on the executive and tax revenues in the long run," WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER), number wp-2022-4.
  2. Giovanni Ballarin & Petros Dellaportas & Lyudmila Grigoryeva & Marcel Hirt & Sophie van Huellen & Juan-Pablo Ortega, 2022, "Reservoir Computing for Macroeconomic Forecasting with Mixed Frequency Data," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2211.00363, Nov, revised Jan 2024.
  3. Newman, Susan & Van Huellen, Sophie, 2022, "Understanding commodity markets to effectively address price increases and volatility in a post-COVID-19 world," Working Papers, Austrian Foundation for Development Research (ÖFSE), number 70, DOI: 10.60637/2022-wp70.
  4. Burchi, Francesco & Zapata-Román, Gabriela, 2022, "Inequality and social cohesion in Africa: Theoretical insights and an exploratory empirical investigation," IDOS Discussion Papers, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), number 16/2022, DOI: 10.23661/idp16.2022.

2021

  1. Ioannis Bournakis & Mona Said & Antonio Savoia & Francesco Savoia, 2021, "Regional Income Inequality in Egypt: Evolution and Implications for Sustainable Development Goal 10," LIS Working papers, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg, number 798, Sep.
  2. Gabriela Zapata-Román, 2021, "The role of skills and tasks in changing employment trends and income inequality in Chile," WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER), number wp-2021-48.

2020

  1. Ioannis Bournakis & Mona Said & Antonio Savoia & Francesco Savoia, 2020, "Patterns of Regional Income Inequality in Egypt: Implications for Sustainable Development Goal 10," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1400, Aug, revised 20 Aug 2020.
  2. Tania Masi & Antonio Savoia & Kunal Sen, 2020, "Is there a fiscal resource curse?: Resource rents, fiscal capacity, and political institutions in developing economies," WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER), number wp-2020-10.
  3. Antonio Savoia & Kunal Sen, 2020, "The political economy of the resource curse: A development perspective," WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER), number wp-2020-123.
  4. Jonathan Bashi Rudahindwa & Sophie van Huellen, 2020, "Regional developmentalism in West Africa: The case for commodity-based industrialisation through regional cooperation in the cocoa-chocolate sector," Working Papers, Department of Economics, SOAS University of London, UK, number 239, Dec.

2019

  1. Foster, Timothy & Adhikari, Roshan & Urfels, Anton & Adhikari, Subash & Krupnik, Timothy J. & International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center & International Rice Research Institute, 2019, "Costs of diesel pump irrigation systems in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains: What options exist for efficiency gains?," CSISA project notes, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), number 15.
  2. M Niaz Asadullah & Norma Mansor & Antonio Savoia, 2019, "Explaining a ‘development miracle’: poverty reduction and human development in Malaysia since the 1970s," Global Development Institute Working Paper Series, GDI, The University of Manchester, number 382019.
  3. M Niaz Asadullah & Antonio Savoia & Kunal Sen, 2019, "Will South Asia achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030? Learning from the MDGs experience," Global Development Institute Working Paper Series, GDI, The University of Manchester, number esid-126-19.
  4. Duo Qin & Sophie van Huellen & Raghda Elshafie & Yimeng Liu & Thanos Moraitis, 2019, "A Principled Approach to Assessing Missing-Wage Induced Selection Bias," Working Papers, Department of Economics, SOAS University of London, UK, number 216, Jan.
  5. Sophie van Huellen, 2019, "Approaches to Price Formation in Financialised Commodity Markets," Working Papers, Department of Economics, SOAS University of London, UK, number 223, Apr.
  6. Sophie van Huellen & Duo Qin & Shan Lu & Huiwen Wang & Qingchao Wang & Thanos Moraitis, 2019, "Modelling Opportunity Cost Effects in Money Demand due to Openness," Working Papers, Department of Economics, SOAS University of London, UK, number 225, Aug.
  7. Andrés Solimano & Gabriela Zapata-Román, 2019, "Structural transformations and the lack of inclusive growth: The case of Chile," WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER), number wp-2019-118.

2018

  1. Tania Masi & Antonio Savoia & Kunal Sen, 2018, "Is there a fiscal resource curse? Resource rents, fiscal capacity and political institutions," Global Development Institute Working Paper Series, GDI, The University of Manchester, number esid-096-18.
  2. Roberto Ricciuti & Antonio Savoia & Kunal Sen, 2018, "What determines administrative capacity in developing countries?," WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER), number wp-2018-13.
  3. Virgi Sari, 2018, "Educational assistance and education quality in Indonesia: The role of decentralization," WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER), number wp-2018-37.
  4. Sophie van Huellen, 2018, "Too Much of a Good Thing? Speculative Effects on Commodity Futures Curves," Working Papers, Department of Economics, SOAS University of London, UK, number 211, Jul.
  5. Sophie van Huellen, 2018, "Price Discovery in Commodity Futures and Cash Markets with Heterogenous Agents," Working Papers, Department of Economics, SOAS University of London, UK, number 213, Nov.
  6. Anja Gaentzsch & Gabriela Zapata Román, 2018, "More educated, less mobile? Diverging trends in income and educational mobility in Chile and Peru," Global Development Institute Working Paper Series, GDI, The University of Manchester, number 312018.

2017

  1. Dereje Regasa & David Fielding & Helen Roberts, 2017, "Access to Financing and Firm Growth: Evidence from Ethiopia," Working Papers, University of Otago, Department of Economics, number 1707, Apr, revised Apr 2017.
  2. M. Niaz Asadullah & Antonio Savoia, 2017, "Poverty reduction during 1990-2013: Did Millennium Development Goals adoption and state capacity matter?," Global Development Institute Working Paper Series, GDI, The University of Manchester, number esid-093-17.
  3. Heidorn, Thomas & Van Huellen, Sophie & Ruehl, C. & Woebbeking, F., 2017, "The long- and short-run impact of oil price changes on major global economies," Frankfurt School - Working Paper Series, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, number 225.

2016

  1. Roberto Ricciuti & Antonio Savoia & Kunal Sen, 2016, "How do political institutions affect fiscal capacity? Explaining taxation in developing economies," Global Development Institute Working Paper Series, GDI, The University of Manchester, number esid-059-16.
  2. Sophie van Huellen & Duo Qin, 2016, "Compulsory Schooling and the Returns to Education: A Re-examination," Working Papers, Department of Economics, SOAS University of London, UK, number 199, Oct.

2014

  1. David Hulme & Antonio Savoia & Kunal Sen, 2014, "Governance as a global development goal? Setting, measuring and monitoring the Post-2015 Development Agenda," Global Development Institute Working Paper Series, GDI, The University of Manchester, number esid-032-14.
  2. Duo Qin & Sophie van H¸llen & Qing-Chao Wang, 2014, "What Happens to Wage Elasticities When We Strip Playometrics? Revisiting Married Women Labour Supply Model," Working Papers, Department of Economics, SOAS University of London, UK, number 190, Dec.

2013

  1. M. Niaz Asadullah & Antonio Savoia & Wahiduddin Mahmud, 2013, "Paths to development: is there a Bangladesh surprise?," Global Development Institute Working Paper Series, GDI, The University of Manchester, number 18913.
  2. Sophie van Huellen, 2013, "Price Non-Convergence in Commodities: A Case Study of the Wheat Conundrum," Working Papers, Department of Economics, SOAS University of London, UK, number 185, Oct.

2012

  1. Antonio Savoia & Kunal Sen, 2012, "Measurement and evolution of state capacity: exploring a lesser known aspect of governance," Global Development Institute Working Paper Series, GDI, The University of Manchester, number esid-010-12.

2011

  1. Adalgiso Amendola & Joshy Easaw & Antonio Savoia, 2011, "Inequality in Developing Economies: The Role of Institutional Development," Discussion Papers, University of Exeter, Department of Economics, number 1107.

Journal articles

2026

  1. Amin Masud Ali & Antonio Savoia, 2026, "Does local government fragmentation reduce poverty? Evidence from Bangladesh," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, volume 24, issue 1, pages 159-181, March, DOI: 10.1007/s10888-025-09678-5.

2025

  1. Antonio Savoia & Kunal Sen, 2025, "Charaiveti: An Academic’s Global Journey," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 61, issue 9, pages 1548-1549, September, DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2024.2391166.

2024

  1. Masi, Tania & Savoia, Antonio & Sen, Kunal, 2024, "Is there a fiscal resource curse? Resource rents, fiscal capacity and political institutions in developing economies," World Development, Elsevier, volume 177, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106532.
  2. Francesco Savoia & Ioannis Bournakis & Mona Said & Antonio Savoia, 2024, "Regional income inequality in Egypt: evolution and implications for Sustainable Development Goal 10," Oxford Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 52, issue 1, pages 17-33, January, DOI: 10.1080/13600818.2023.2225429.
  3. Ballarin, Giovanni & Dellaportas, Petros & Grigoryeva, Lyudmila & Hirt, Marcel & van Huellen, Sophie & Ortega, Juan-Pablo, 2024, "Reservoir computing for macroeconomic forecasting with mixed-frequency data," International Journal of Forecasting, Elsevier, volume 40, issue 3, pages 1206-1237, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2023.10.009.
  4. Andreoni, Antonio & van Huellen, Sophie & Katera, Lucas & Jahari, Cornel, 2024, "How to overcome rent seeking in Tanzania’s skills sector? Exploring feasible reforms through discrete choice experiments," World Development, Elsevier, volume 182, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106705.

2023

  1. Savoia, Antonio & Sen, Kunal, 2023, "The origins of fiscal states in developing economies: history, politics and institutions," Journal of Institutional Economics, Cambridge University Press, volume 19, issue 3, pages 303-313, June.
  2. Savoia, Antonio & Sen, Kunal & Tagem, Abrams M. E., 2023, "Constraints on the executive and tax revenues in the long run," Journal of Institutional Economics, Cambridge University Press, volume 19, issue 3, pages 314-331, June.
  3. Ali, Amin Masud & Savoia, Antonio, 2023, "Decentralisation or patronage: What determines government's allocation of development spending in a unitary country? Evidence from Bangladesh," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, volume 78, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2023.102385.

2022

  1. Dereje Regasa & David Fielding & Helen Roberts, 2022, "Ethnicity, Banking and Local Economic Development: Evidence from Ethiopia," Journal of African Economies, Centre for the Study of African Economies, volume 31, issue 5, pages 409-440.
  2. Dereje Regasa & Bekele Abraham, 2022, "Financial constraints and trade credit: Evidence from Ethiopian firms," Cogent Economics & Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 10, issue 1, pages 2048483-204, December, DOI: 10.1080/23322039.2022.2048483.
  3. Duo Qin & Sophie van Huellen & Qing Chao Wang & Thanos Moraitis, 2022, "Algorithmic Modelling of Financial Conditions for Macro Predictive Purposes: Pilot Application to USA Data," Econometrics, MDPI, volume 10, issue 2, pages 1-22, April.
  4. Sophie van Huellen & Duo Qin & Shan Lu & Huiwen Wang & Qing Chao Wang & Thanos Moraitis, 2022, "Modelling opportunity cost effects in money demand due to openness," International Journal of Finance & Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., volume 27, issue 1, pages 697-744, January, DOI: 10.1002/ijfe.2175.

2021

  1. Foster, Timothy & Adhikari, Roshan & Adhikari, Subash & Justice, Scott & Tiwari, Baburam & Urfels, Anton & Krupnik, Timothy J., 2021, "Improving pumpset selection to support intensification of groundwater irrigation in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, volume 256, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2021.107070.
  2. Thomas P. Higginbottom & Roshan Adhikari & Ralitza Dimova & Sarah Redicker & Timothy Foster, 2021, "Performance of large-scale irrigation projects in sub-Saharan Africa," Nature Sustainability, Nature, volume 4, issue 6, pages 501-508, June, DOI: 10.1038/s41893-020-00670-7.
  3. Yonatan Dinku & Dereje Regasa, 2021, "Ethnic Diversity and Local Economies," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, volume 89, issue 3, pages 348-367, September, DOI: 10.1111/saje.12286.
  4. Dereje Regasa & David Fielding & Helen Roberts, 2021, "Contestable Credit Markets and Household Welfare: Panel Data Evidence from Ethiopia," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 57, issue 3, pages 484-501, March, DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2020.1826447.
  5. Dereje Getachew Regasa & Bekele Abraham Diro & Ephrem Dejene Tadesse & Meseret Niguse Buta, 2021, "Access to financial services and innovation: firm-level data for Ethiopia," Innovation and Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 11, issue 1, pages 119-134, January, DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2020.1798070.
  6. Antonio Savoia & Kunal Sen, 2021, "The Political Economy of the Resource Curse: A Development Perspective," Annual Review of Resource Economics, Annual Reviews, volume 13, issue 1, pages 203-223, October, DOI: 10.1146/annurev-resource-100820-092.
  7. M. Niaz Asadullah & Norma Mansor & Antonio Savoia, 2021, "Understanding a “Development Miracle”: Poverty Reduction and Human Development in Malaysia Since the 1970s," Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 22, issue 4, pages 551-576, October, DOI: 10.1080/19452829.2021.1975664.
  8. Sophie van Huellen & Fuad Mohammed Abubakar, 2021, "Potential for Upgrading in Financialised Agri-food Chains: The Case of Ghanaian Cocoa," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), volume 33, issue 2, pages 227-252, April, DOI: 10.1057/s41287-020-00351-3.

2020

  1. Oldekop, Johan A. & Horner, Rory & Hulme, David & Adhikari, Roshan & Agarwal, Bina & Alford, Matthew & Bakewell, Oliver & Banks, Nicola & Barrientos, Stephanie & Bastia, Tanja & Bebbington, Anthony J., 2020, "COVID-19 and the case for global development," World Development, Elsevier, volume 134, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105044.
  2. Dereje Regasa & David Fielding & Helen Roberts, 2020, "Sources of Financing and Firm Growth: Evidence from Ethiopia," Journal of African Economies, Centre for the Study of African Economies, volume 29, issue 1, pages 26-45.
  3. Samuel Jebaraj Benjamin & Dereje Getachew Regasa & Nirosha Hewa Wellalage & M Srikamalaladevi M Marathamuthu, 2020, "Waste disclosure and corporate cash holdings," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 52, issue 49, pages 5399-5412, October, DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2020.1764480.
  4. M. Niaz Asadullah & Antonio Savoia & Kunal Sen, 2020, "Will South Asia Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030? Learning from the MDGs Experience," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, volume 152, issue 1, pages 165-189, November, DOI: 10.1007/s11205-020-02423-7.
  5. Sophie van Huellen, 2020, "Approaches To Price Formation In Financialized Commodity Markets," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, volume 34, issue 1, pages 219-237, February, DOI: 10.1111/joes.12342.
  6. van Huellen, Sophie, 2020, "Too much of a good thing? Speculative effects on commodity futures curves," Journal of Financial Markets, Elsevier, volume 47, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.finmar.2018.12.001.

2019

  1. Ricciuti, Roberto & Savoia, Antonio & Sen, Kunal, 2019, "How do political institutions affect fiscal capacity? Explaining taxation in developing economies," Journal of Institutional Economics, Cambridge University Press, volume 15, issue 2, pages 351-380, April.
  2. Roberto Ricciuti & Antonio Savoia & Kunal Sen, 2019, "What determines administrative capacity in developing countries?," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer;International Institute of Public Finance, volume 26, issue 5, pages 972-998, October, DOI: 10.1007/s10797-019-09535-y.
  3. M. Niaz Asadullah & Antonio Savoia, 2019, "How China Escaped the Poverty Trap," Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 20, issue 4, pages 488-490, October, DOI: 10.1080/19452829.2019.1600788.
  4. Virgi A. Sari, 2019, "Educational Assistance and Education Quality in Indonesia: The Role of Decentralization," Population and Development Review, The Population Council, Inc., volume 45, issue S1, pages 123-154, December, DOI: 10.1111/padr.12272.
  5. van Huellen, Sophie, 2019, "Price discovery in commodity futures and cash markets with heterogeneous agents," Journal of International Money and Finance, Elsevier, volume 95, issue C, pages 1-13, DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2019.03.003.
  6. Sophie van Huellen & Duo Qin, 2019, "Compulsory Schooling and Returns to Education: A Re-Examination," Econometrics, MDPI, volume 7, issue 3, pages 1-20, September.

2018

  1. Asadullah, M. Niaz & Savoia, Antonio, 2018, "Poverty reduction during 1990–2013: Did millennium development goals adoption and state capacity matter?," World Development, Elsevier, volume 105, issue C, pages 70-82, DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.12.010.
  2. Sophie van Huellen, 2018, "How financial investment distorts food prices: evidence from U.S. grain markets," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, volume 49, issue 2, pages 171-181, March, DOI: 10.1111/agec.12406.

2016

  1. Ralitza Dimova & Antonio Savoia, 2016, "Institutions: Evolution, Path Dependency, Anachronisms and Impact," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 52, issue 2, pages 161-165, February, DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2015.1060319.
  2. Antonio Savoia & Kunal Sen, 2016, "Do We See Convergence in Institutions? A Cross-Country Analysis," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 52, issue 2, pages 166-185, February, DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2015.1060315.

2015

  1. David Hulme & Antonio Savoia & Kunal Sen, 2015, "Governance as a Global Development Goal? Setting, Measuring and Monitoring the Post-2015 Development Agenda," Global Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, volume 6, issue 2, pages 85-96, May.
  2. Antonio Savoia & Kunal Sen, 2015, "Measurement, Evolution, Determinants, And Consequences Of State Capacity: A Review Of Recent Research," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, volume 29, issue 3, pages 441-458, July.
  3. Duo Qin & Sophie Van Huellen & Qing-Chao Wang, 2015, "How Credible Are Shrinking Wage Elasticities of Married Women Labour Supply?," Econometrics, MDPI, volume 4, issue 1, pages 1-31, December.

2014

  1. Asadullah, M. Niaz & Savoia, Antonio & Mahmud, Wahiduddin, 2014, "Paths to Development: Is there a Bangladesh Surprise?," World Development, Elsevier, volume 62, issue C, pages 138-154, DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.05.013.

2013

  1. Adalgiso Amendola & Joshy Easaw & Antonio Savoia, 2013, "Inequality in developing economies: the role of institutional development," Public Choice, Springer, volume 155, issue 1, pages 43-60, April, DOI: 10.1007/s11127-011-9838-3.

2012

  1. Cullis, John & Jones, Philip & Savoia, Antonio, 2012, "Social norms and tax compliance: Framing the decision to pay tax," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, volume 41, issue 2, pages 159-168, DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2011.12.003.

2010

  1. Savoia, Antonio & Easaw, Joshy & McKay, Andrew, 2010, "Inequality, Democracy, and Institutions: A Critical Review of Recent Research," World Development, Elsevier, volume 38, issue 2, pages 142-154, February.

Books

2024

  1. Solimano,Andrés & Zapata-Román,Gabriela, 2024, "Chilean Economic Development under Neoliberalism," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781009477345.

Chapters

2015

  1. John Antle & Roshan Adhikari & Stephanie Price, 2015, "An Income-based Food Security Indicator for Agricultural Technology Impact Assessment," Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, "Food Security in an Uncertain World", DOI: 10.1108/S1574-871520150000015006.

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