such disparities are increasing, partly as a consequence of the uneven impact of trade openness and globalization. While …The UNU-WIDER project on 'Spatial Disparities in Human Development' has collected and analyzed evidence on the extent …

Vietnam.s development performance since the early 1990s has been one of the strongest in the world, following the … its domestic market only slowly while encouraging export growth. …

, socioeconomic development, is attained by those countries which take greater care to foster the institutional reinforcement of …

for development. I suggest that nationally-oriented elites are often dependent on the social reproduction of at least a … portion of the popular and working classes for the reproduction of their own status, and therefore on local development … a discourse from one that defines development as national industrialization and expanded consumption to one that defines …

trade liberalization takes time to realize positive employment effects. Disappointing employment growth in the face of an …