Adjustment to a post‐Doha trading regime will be disproportionately costly and difficult for developing countries. Increased aid is vital for the poor countries if they are to grasp the opportunities provided through trade and meet transition costs. With aid‐for‐trade, for the first time,...

This study attempts to identify the key structural and institutional factors that influence the decision to export using a database of 8,047 firms in manufacturing, services and agricultural activity and in 81 countries. A Probit model of the export decision is estimated for the full sample of...

Ten years after the demise of apartheid, South Africa still faces significant development challenges. Government policy has focused mainly upon the macro‐economy, which has not necessarily helped address the plight of marginalized communities. One parallel mechanism designed to empower...

Following the extension of trade and capital market reform in Mexico in the mid‐1980s, manufactured exports accelerated at an exponential rate. In spite of this remarkable performance, the Trade and Current Accounts remained consistently negative, manufacturing as a share of GDP stagnated, and...

A vast majority of India's labour force is in unorganized sector. In the absence of economic opportunities in their own states, many workers migrate across the other states of India to seek employment. Construction industry depends almost entirely on migrant workers, majority of which are women....

This paper offers a novel conceptual framework based on decision‐making institutions, structures and principles, for a systemic integration of ethics and economic development. Within this framework ethical issues are systematically incorporated into the main components of the decision‐making...

In this paper, we look at the GATT/WTO framework and examine the extent to which it has served the interests of the developing countries. The scope of WTO is much broader than that of the GATT. The WTO covers a number of areas which were outside the purview of the GATT. Our survey indicates that...

We investigate the convergence of Chinese real GDP per capita at regional and provincial levels, looking separately at the sub‐periods before and after major economic reforms and paying attention to the possibility of structural breaks induced by the ‘Great Leap Forward’. At the regional...

Earlier work often referred to as the ‘hole in the wall’ experiments has shown that groups of children can leam to use public computers on their own. This paper presents the method and results of an experiment conducted to investigate whether such unsupervised group learning in shared public...

Does a strong commitment to an exchange rate peg reduce the cost of financial capital to less developed countries? We use a sample of twelve Caribbean countries to examine the impact that the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU), a currency board/monetary union, has in lowering the cost of...