The main emphasis of labour policies in several EU countries seem to have been addressed during the period 1985-2005 to contain the increases of real wages, under the misleading belief that lower wages could lead the policies to get higher employment rates. We show that the main policies to...

In this paper we intended to analyse the effects that the incorporation of the candidate states to the EU will have over their economies. As far as the EU has evolved towards a single market, we studied their foreign trade with the EU member states (intra and inter industrial trade). We also...

We analyse the role of foreign direct investment in the new acceding economies. The question to be answered is whether the new countries in EU may improve their positions in order to capture FDI flows from their comparative advantages and the southern European countries can worse their positions...

We analyze economic development in Philippines for the period 1990-2006, with special focus on inter-sectoral relationships and the role of foreign trade. We analyze the evolution of real value added of Agriculture, Manufacturing, Industry and Services, and we present an econometric model which...

This study seeks to find out whether there existed an empirically discernable and robust tendency in the world for countries to converge in terms of human development over the last three decades. Human development is measured by the Human Development Index trend and convergence across countries...

This article analyzes the evolution of education, health expenditure and economic development in 39 African countries for the period 2000-2005, which shows that the low levels of health expenditure in many Africa countries are far from evolving to the necessary speed to meet the social demand....

We analyse the evolution of Manufacturing Value-Added per inhabitant in 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries during the period 1980-2002, and present a comparison with more industrialized countries. We find that very few Latin American countries have experienced an increase in that variable...

This articles emphasizes the important role of human capital, manufacturing and imports to increase real income per inhabitant and non-agrarian employment. Some researchers specialized in economic growth analyse the export-led growth in many countries and insist upon the importance of openness...

We compare the economic development of Asia-Pacific countries in the 20th century with World average, and analyse the evolution of education, fertility, population and economic growth in Asia-Pacific countries at the end of the 20th century, showing that, after centuries of slow economic...

The paper presents a general view of the educational level of population and its relation to economic development in African countries. We present a comparative view of production by sector and per inhabitant, external trade, years of schooling and fertility rates, by country and by large areas,...