Over the last three decades, Pakistan has expanded free and compulsory education to millions of students and increased female students' attendance at school. Punjab alone doubled the number of 6- to 15-year-old children in school to 26 million between 1998 and 2020. The country has also...

The Austrian economy has benefited substantially from the expansion of economic ties with Central and Eastern Europe, which has provided a significant boost to growth, productivity, competitiveness, profits and (more controversially) aggregate employment. Indeed, among the older EU member...

This paper provides an overview of inflation developments in Vietnam in the years following the doi moi reforms, and uses empirical analysis to answer two key questions: (i) what are the key drivers of inflation in Vietnam, and what role does monetary policy play? and (ii) why has inflation in...

This paper analyses in a sample equilibrium framework how uncertainty regarding the future level of taxes on factor incomes in the Mexican economy affects the overall volume of domestic investment and capital flight. It is a variation of the Alesina-Tabellini model, and brings out the importance...

International oil producers have discovered commercially recoverable petroleum reserves of around 11 billion barrels that promise to transform Guyana's agricultural and mining economy into an oil powerhouse, while hopefully helping to diversify the non-oil economy. Oil production presents a...