Biofuels have become big policy and big business. Government targets, mandates, and
blending quotas have created a growing demand for…
What explains the economic success of Mauritius, a top performer among African countries? How did it develop a manufacturing sector and…
Prices of most agricultural and mineral commodities rose strongly in the past decade, peaking sharply in 2008. Popular explanations…
Seven possible nominal variables are considered as candidates to be the anchor or target for monetary policy. The context is countries in…
Can the Doha trade talks ever be brought to a close? Without a final consensus, the global trading system remains fragmented. The best…
Throughout, the history of the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region, natural resource wealth has been critical for its economies.…
Concerns that (1) growth in developing countries could worsen the US terms of trade and (2) that increased US trade with developing…
Conventional trade theory, which combines the Heckscher-Ohlin theory and the Stolper-Samuelson theorem, implies that expanded trade between…
The 2009 conference, jointly hosted by the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis at the Australian…
This book has been prepared for the Commission on Growth and Development to evaluate the prospects for economic growth in developing…