This edition of Better Policies for Development focuses on illicit financial flows and their detrimental effects on development and growth. Every year, huge sums of money are transferred out of developing countries illegally. The numbers are disputed, but illicit financial flows are often cited...

The purpose of the test is to measure the capacity of a chemical to activate or inhibit the transcription of a genetic construct (THb/ZIP-GFP X. laevis eleutheroembryos) either by binding to the thyroid hormone receptor or by modifying the amount of thyroid hormone available for transcription....

This Test Guideline describes an in vitro screen for chemical effects on steroidogenesis, specifically the production of 17ß-estradiol (E2) and testosterone (T). The human H295R adreno-carcinoma cell line, used for the assay, expresses genes that encode for all the key enzymes for...

Im ersten Teil des Berichts wird eine Übersicht über die bisherigen Erfahrungen der OECD-Länder mit Außenhandelskontrollen gegeben. In fast allen OECD-Ländern wurden Außenhandelskontrollen aufgegeben. Obwohl zwischen den östlichen Reformländern und den westlichen Industrieländern große...