The paper investigates the reasons for the established disappointing performance of the Arab education system as compared to the rest of the world. We focus on the role of the quality of informal institutions as measured by the World Value Survey (WVS) and formal institutions as measured by the...

Researchers’ enthusiasm for estimating industry oligopoly power in developing countries is often not matched with availability of data. Even when available, data are often incomplete, inconsistent, too aggregated, and almost always collected by government agencies for purposes different from...

Introduction / Mathias Dewatripont, André Sapir and Khalid Sekkat -- How much has LDC trade affected Western job markets? / Richard Freeman and Ana Revenga -- Relative prices, trade and restructuring in European industry / Damien Neven and Charles Wyplosz -- Labour market effects of trade with...