What explains the economic success of Mauritius, a top performer among African countries? How did it develop a manufacturing sector and…
By putting together a relatively large data set on bilateral remittances of emigrants, this paper is able to shed light on the important…
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…
On a recent Saturday morning, several hundred pro-democracy activists congregated in a Moscow square to protest government restrictions on…
A specter is haunting Europe — the specter of “market confidence.”
It may have been fear of communism that agitated governments when Karl…
A specter is haunting Europe — the specter of “market confidence.”
It may have been fear of communism that agitated governments when Karl…
China, with its geographical, historical, cultural, and political distance from the West, long has been a black box upon which we readily…
Book abstract: In the interests of contextualising (and nuancing) the multiple interrelations between gender and poverty, Sylvia Chant has…