This paper combines labor force survey data with trade and production data from 1988 to 1997 to examine the impact of trade on wages and employment in the Philippines’s manufacturing sector. In contrast to findings typically reported for Latin American countries, data indicate that wage...

There are significant income and nonincome development gaps around theworld. Closing these gaps will require not only increasing and sustainingeconomic growth in low-income regions, but also policies that closenonincome development gaps directly. Governments need to support privateinvestment and...

This paper goes over some of the recent discussions on the effects on growth and poverty of institutions and policies, especially those that relate to the functioning of the private sector. It examines the empirical relationship between various measures of institutional quality and regulatory...