type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This article examines Mexico's industrial policy and economic performance, focusing on an analysis of the structural changes in its manufacturing sector associated with NAFTA. The aim of the article is to improve our understanding of why the post-NAFTA...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This article revisits the role of manufacturing and services in economic development in the light of a number of new phenomena: a faster growth of services than of manufacturing in many developing countries; the emergence of ‘de-industrialization’ in...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>The 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women (the ‘Beijing Conference’) was a landmark in policy terms, setting a global policy framework to advance gender equality. Ten years after Beijing, in March 2005, the UN's Commission on the Status of Women presided...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>East Asia's newly industrializing economies are the paragon of successful industrialization. This article investigates what lies behind this success by identifying seven ‘stylized facts’, which concern the contributions to industrialization and growth of...</p>