Hippolyte d’Albis* and Agnès Bénassy-Quéré* This article was originally published in the May 2021 edition of the 5 papers…in 5 minutes. In high-income countries, corporate tax rates have been substantially reduced since the 1990s. One common explanation for this is the tax competition that states engage in order to attract foreign investment. Financial globalisation leads governments […]

Hippolyte d’Albis*, Ekrame Boubtane* and Dramane Coulibaly This article was originally published in the May 2021 edition of the 5 papers…in 5 minutes. The OECD countries are the main host countries of immigrants, who represent nearly 15% of the total resident populations. In the past few years, the contribution of immigrants to demographic growth has increased […]

François Bourguignon* and Jean-Philippe Platteau This article was originally published in the April 2021 edition of 5 papers…en 5 minutes! A key issue for development aid donors arises from the need to reconcile demands for efficiency in the use of that aid with its prime objective of reducing poverty. The problem assumes the form of […]

Ariell Reshef*, Gianluca Santoni This article was originally published in the March 2021 edition of the 5 papers…in 5 minutes. The decline in labor shares in recent decades in many advanced economies has caught the attention and concerns of both academics and policy makers. The interest in declining labor shares stems from concerns about its implications […]

Pamina Koenig* and Sandra Poncet* This article was originally published in the January 2021 edition of the 5 papers…in 5 minutes. The globalisation of production processes has made the task of identifying social and environmental responsibilities in production operations more difficult because such operations are subject to the sometimes less stringent regulations in supply countries. NGOs, in […]

François Libois*, Ritu Muralidharan, Juni Singh, Oliver Vanden Eynde* This article was originally published in the October 2020 edition of the 5 papers…in 5 minutes. After the Gurkha War (1814-1816), British colonizers were so impressed by the fighting skills of their former enemies that the East India Company started to recruit Gurkha soldiers from Nepal – […]