regarding the efficiency of public investment. "--World Bank web site …

endowments and productivity, relative factor costs emerge as a source of real-income variation across countries. These are shaped … by bilateral trade determinants (which underpin the patterns of "international value-added linkages") and the global … back out the relative factor costs of 40 major economies in a theory-consistent manner. This reduces the variation in …

Swinnerton and Rogers (1999) to allow for a more general utility function. Our new finding is that while in higher-productivity … countries with child labor, a more equal income distribution can reduce or eliminate child labor, in low-productivity countries … reduce child labor should take into account the productivity level of the economy …

This paper examines the potential for sector-specific productivity growth, human capital, credit markets, and … infrastructure to contribute to the development of stable, well-paid employment in rural areas of low-income countries. Particular …