<DIV>Social Security in the United States and in Europe is at a critical juncture. Through the essays assembled in <I>Social Security Pension Reform in Europe</I>, Martin Feldstein and Horst Siebert, along with a number of distinguished contributors, discuss the challenges facing Social Security reform in...</i></div>

Die meisten afrikanischen Länder laufen Gefahr, die Millennium Development Goals weit zu verfehlen. Die Vereinten Nationen fordern deshalb, die Entwicklungshilfe massiv aufzustocken, und der Afrika-Aktionsplan der G8 verspricht eine Konzentration der Hilfe auf Afrika. Vor diesem Hintergrund...

Krugman's verdict that competitiveness of countries is a largely meaningless concept is a serious misjudgement of the economics profession. Countries compete for the mobile factors of production, most importantly for capital and technology. The exit-option of these factors and of firms changes...

National competition means that national economies compete for mobile capital, mobile technical know-how and for highly qualified mobile manpower. Those countries which attract these production factors or can keep them in the country help their workforce to attain higher real incomes....