Devesh Kapur
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Devesh Kapur's Degrees
- PhD Political Science University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Political Science University of California, Berkeley
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Published Works
- Remittances : the new development mantra? (2004) (553)
- Give Us Your Best and Brightest: The Global Hunt for Talent and Its Impact on the Developing World (2005) (475)
- How do spatial and social proximity influence knowledge flows? Evidence from patent data (2008) (404)
- The World Bank: Its First Half Century (1997) (362)
- Brain Drain or Brain Bank? The Impact of Skilled Emigration on Poor-Country Innovation (2008) (351)
- Diasporas and Technology Transfer (2001) (198)
- The fiscal impact of high-skilled emigration: Flows of Indians to the U.S. (2009) (122)
- Improving Data Quality: Actors, Incentives, and Capabilities (2007) (104)
- Governance-Related Conditionalities Of The International Financial Institutions (2000) (101)
- Migration's New Payoff (2003) (98)
- Rethinking inequality: dalits in Uttar Pradesh in the market reform era. (2010) (96)
- Sharing the Spoils: Taxing International Human Capital Flows (2004) (79)
- The Case for Direct Cash Transfers to the Poor (2008) (67)
- Sojourns and Software: Internationally Mobile Human Capital and High-Tech Industry Development in India, Ireland, and Israel (2008) (66)
- (When) Do Anti-Poverty Programs Reduce Violence? India's Rural Employment Guarantee and Maoist Conflict (2016) (38)
- Should a Cosmopolitan Worry about the “Brain Drain”? (2006) (38)
- Birds of a Feather - Better Together? Exploring the Optimal Spatial Distribution of Ethnic Inventors (2007) (35)
- Renewable Natural Resource Shocks and Conflict Intensity (2017) (34)
- The Common Pool Dilemma of Global Public Goods: Lessons from the World Bank's Net Income and Reserves (2002) (34)
- (When) Do Antipoverty Programs Reduce Violence? India's Rural Employment Guarantee and Maoist Conflict (2017) (33)
- Expansive agendas and weak instruments: governance related conditionalities of international financial institutions (2001) (31)
- The IMF and Democratic Governance (2005) (30)
- Why Does the Indian State Both Fail and Succeed? (2020) (22)
- The Shift to Cash Transfers: Running Better But on the Wrong Road? (2011) (22)
- More on direct cash Transfers (2008) (20)
- Beyond the IMF (2006) (19)
- International migration and the world income distribution (2009) (19)
- Renewable Resource Shocks and Conflict in India's Maoist Belt (2012) (16)
- Six Puzzles in Indian Agriculture (2016) (16)
- Do as I Say Not as I Do: A Critique of G-7 Proposals on Reforming the MDBs (2002) (15)
- Economic Effects of Emigration on Sending Countries (2012) (12)
- Remittances and Rashomon (2012) (11)
- Birds of a Feather - Better Together? How Co-Ethnicity and Co-Location Influence Knowledge Flow Patterns (2006) (8)
- Anti-poverty Programs Can Reduce Violence: India's Rural Employment Guarantee and Maoist Conflict ⁄ (2014) (8)
- Rethinking the Financial Design of the World Bank (2014) (8)
- The Evolution of the Multilateral Development Banks (1996) (7)
- An updating country study: Thailand's needs and prospects in the 1990s (1990) (7)
- Understanding Mandis: Market Towns and the Dynamics of India’s Rural and Urban Transformations (2016) (7)
- DO AS I SAY NOT AS I DO: A CRITIQUE OF G-7 PROPOSALS ON REFORMING THE MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS (2003) (5)
- 3. THE CHANGING ANATOMY OF GOVERNANCE OF THE WORLD BANK (2019) (4)
- Addressing the brain drain: A partial cosmopolitanism approach (2017) (4)
- The WTO and the Politics of India's Textile Sector: From Inefficient Redistribution to Industrial Upgradation? (2003) (4)
- Working Paper Series From Economic to Social remittances : an International Overview (2015) (3)
- Poverty, power and RCTs (2020) (3)
- Remittances as Insurance in the Global Economy (2006) (3)
- More for the Poor and Less for and by the State : The Case for Direct Cash Transfers (2008) (3)
- The Quest for Global Leadership: U.S.-China Competition in Multilateral Financial Institutions (2017) (2)
- Developing Countries Worse Off Than Once Thought – Part II (2008) (1)
- Geoeconomics Versus Geopolitics (2014) (1)
- Partisan Disagreement: The Role of Media, Personal Networks and Gender in Forming Political Preferences (2021) (1)
- Conclusion (2018) (1)
- International Migration as an Alternative to Development Assistance - eScholarship (2007) (0)
- Editor's Introduction (2001) (0)
- Documents on Democracy (2005) (0)
- CHAPTER 5: Social Remittances: Migration and the Flow of Ideas (2010) (0)
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