Many small countries on the periphery have experimented with policies and institutions that could usefully be adopted by others.
Two…
This paper summarises the findings of an evaluation of the Programme of Advancement through Health and Education (PATH), a conditional cash…
Conventional trade theory, which combines the Heckscher-Ohlin theory and the Stolper-Samuelson theorem, implies that expanded trade between…
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Despite recent growing demand from funders and governments, rigorous impact evaluations in Latin America and the Caribbean remain the…
Many developing countries have a history of highly centralized governments. Since the late 1980s, a large number of these governments have…
The race is on to fill the most important economic policy position in the world. United States Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s…
For Adam Smith, wealth was related to the division of labor. As people and firms specialize in different activities, economic efficiency…
Buenos Aires and Chicago grew during the nineteenth century for remarkably similar reasons. Both cities were conduits for moving meat and…
The Mexico Competitiveness Report 2009 builds on
the methodology and findings of the World Economic
Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report…