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Blog

From the Editor's Desk (January 2012)

by Tony Addison January 2012

Tony Addison January saw the snow arrive in Helsinki. As I look out across the harbour, the scene is one of various shades of white and grey. The...

Journal Article

The Impact of the Global Commodity and Financial Crises on Poverty in Vietnam

Economic growth in Vietnam was resilient to the global commodity and financial crises, but it is unclear why. Impacts on employment and poverty are also disputed. We develop a dynamic computable general equilibrium model to decompose growth and...

Blog

Can Entrepreneurship Make Peace Work?

by Tony Addison, Tilman Brück March 2009

Tony Addison and Tilman Brück There is a special role for entrepreneurship to play in making peace work. The recently published UNU-WIDER study...

Journal Special Issue

South-South and North-South Trade Agreements

In this special issue, five articles address some of the challenges associated with integrating an existing S-S regional agreement with a new template that results from block negotiations with a northern partner. The compatibility issues this raises...

Working Paper

Industrial Policy

The debate on industrial policy (IP) has been characterized by a number of contractions over the concept of industrial policy, its merits, contents and application. The purpose of this exploratory paper is to review the debate on IP. Outlining the...

Working Paper

Economic Reform and Its Interpretations in Russia

Working Paper

Indo-Sri Lanka Economic Cooperation

A substantially higher rate of growth of exports is crucial to ensure success of the major outward-oriented, 'market friendly' economic reforms being pursued in India and Sri Lanka. The international economic and trade environment, however, is far...

Working Paper

Indo-Sri Lanka Economic Cooperation

The emerging trends in global trading patterns point to the increasing role and significance of regional economic cooperation in promoting the process of growth and development. The formation of the South-Asian Association for Regional Cooperation...

Working Paper

Trade, Trade Policy and Industrialization Reconsidered

Working Paper

The Road to the Market in North Korea

North Korea's economic reform began in the mid-1980s. It was motivated by the increasing seriousness of the problems typical of centrally planned socialist economies.In general, the country's reforms have so far been limited both in scope and depth...

Journal Article

A note on modelling economic growth determinants in the Dominican Republic

The article models economic growth determinants in the Dominican Republic. The exercise considers a panel of 25 candidate explanatory variables observed during the last three decades of the twentieth century. The time series are selected on the basis...

Working Paper

Export Performance in Chile

Since the mid-1970s, Chile's exports have expanded at a fast rate, and the export basket has diversified considerably, away from copper towards other primary commodities and commodity-intensive manufactures. This paper explores the causal factors and...

Working Paper

Can Free Trade Guarantee Gains from Trade?

Static and dynamic gains from trade are the reasons why countries embark on the path of free trade, expecting this to promote industrialization and development. There is nothing, however, in the conventional theory of international trade that...

Working Paper

Consumer Participation and Pro-Poor Regulation in Latin America

In spite of not being ‘public goods’ in the strict sense of the term, public provision has been a common way of supplying utilities services around the world. Among the major reasons underlying the dominant position of the public sector as the...

Working Paper

Globalization and Formal Sector Migration in Brazil

We use novel linked employer–employee data to study the relationship between globalization and formal sector interstate migration for Brazil. We estimate the worker’s multichoice migration problem and document that previously unobserved employer...

Working Paper

Developing Countries in the New Economy

Past breakthroughs in communication technology—the invention of the printing press and the telegraph—led to major economic upheavals. What are the implications of the more recent information and communication technologies (ICTs) for the developing...