Mainwaring L., Jones R. and Blackaby D. (2006) Devolution, sustainability and GDP convergence: is the Welsh agenda achievable?, Regional Studies 40, 679-689. The Welsh Assembly Government has a constitutional duty to promote sustainable development. The devolution settlement does not, however,...

Some economists have advocated the use of measures of genetic dissimilarity to guide species preservation priorities. It is argued here that such policies are: 1) possible for only a very small number of species for which data are available; 2)impractical as a general guide to biodiversity...

Using data provided by The Law Society of England and Wales, the paper attempts to evaluate the quantity and quality of legal services provided by private solicitors in Wales. Both are found wanting compared to England as a whole and to an appropriate comparator region (South West England)....

The possibility of immiserizing growth is explored in a nonneoclassical North-South model having formal similarities to R. M. Goodwin's (1967) growth-cycle model. Because of the 'engine of growth' property of the Northern economy, a redistribution in favor of the South is beneficial to that...

In a model where initially the North specialises in manufactures and the South in primary products, international investment leads to a rising Northern growth rate. If this rate comes to exceed that of Northern labour growth, a full-employment barrier is reached, pushing up Northern wages. This...