This document describes the construction of a social accounting matrix (SAM) for Senegal. The SAM is based upon 2011 national accounts statistics and provides a consistent framework for the assessment of growth and employment policies.

Using data from microenterprises of the handloom sector in four regions of Ethiopia, the paper shows that clustering, through specialization and division of labor, can lower entry barriers by reducing the initial capital required to start a business. This effect is found to be significantly...

This book recommends the creation of a new, alternative legal structure for collective investment, the "managed investment trust."

Seemingly common-sense taxation approaches raise issues of equity, tax administration, and unintended economic consequences.

This study explains why financial services have for centuries been regulated to a greater extent than are most products that do not directly affect people's health or safety.

The authors consider whether any special circumstances justify departure from free trade in telecommunications equipment.

Economists, trade policy experts, and legislators express their views on the competitive position of the United States in world trade.

This bookconcerns the world of transnational investing and the drift in U.S. policy towards conditional national treatment and the use of foreign investors as a trade tool.