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Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth
In One Economics, Many Recipes, leading economist Dani Rodrik argues that neither globalizers nor antiglobalizers have got it right. While economic gl...
Globalization is exposing social fissures between those with the education, skills, and mobility to flourish in an unfettered world marketโthe appar...
Why Global Markets, States, and Democracy Can't Coexist
For a century, economists have driven forward the cause of globalization in financial institutions, labour markets, and trade. Yet there have been con...
โA hugely valuable contribution. . . . In setting out a defence of the best in economics, Rodrik has also provided a goal for the discipline as a wh...
Democracy and the Future of the World Economy
Combining history with personal insights, a professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University discusses how democracy and national se...
How we can look beyond the tyranny of market logic in our public lives to reimagine the fundamentals of democracy. Bringing together thirty-two world-...
Why Economics Works, when it Fails, and how to Tell the Difference
A leading economist trains a lens on his own discipline to uncover when it fails and when it works....
Debt, Adjustment and Sustainability
Turkey stands at a crossroad after a decade of adjustment to its severe debt crisis in the late 1970s. This volume brings together a group of contribu...
Ideas for a Sane World Economy
Deftly navigating the tensions among globalization, national sovereignty, and democracy, Straight Talk on Trade presents an indispensable commentary o...
The Mystery of the Indian Growth Transition
This paper explores the causes of India's productivity surge around 1980, more than a decade before serious economic reforms were initiated. Trade lib...
The Primacy of Institutions Over Integration and Geography in Economic Development
Abstract: We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining income levels around the world, using recently...
Making Openness Work
Policymakers in the developing world are grappling with new dilemmas created by openness to trade and capital flows. What role, if any, remains for th...
A Country Perspective
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Policy Implications for Citizens Worldwide in the 21st Century
Substantial progress in the fight against extreme poverty was made in the last two decades. But the slowdown in global economic growth and significant...
In recent years uniform tariffs have become increasingly popular but economists have not formulated a rationale that demonstrates their superiority to...
The debate about stronger enforcement of patents on intellectual property rights assumes that the technological needs of the North and the South are s...
High Stakes For Developing Countries
- What to Do?...
Controlling for labor productivity, income levels, and other possible determinants, there is a robust and statistically significant association betwee...
Some New Issues
Three questions lie at the core of the large and distinguished literature on the political economy of trade policy. First, why is international trade ...
The controversy over the appropriate partitioning of East Asian growth into accumulation versus technical change has overlooked a fundamental indeterm...
External Shocks, Social Conflict and Growth Collapses
This paper argues that domestic social conflicts are a key to understanding why growth rates lack persistence and why so many countries have experienc...
This study focuses on the role of trade and trade policy in achieving sustained long-term growth in Africa. One major conclusion is that trade policy ...
"This is an attempt to derive broad, strategic lessons from the diverse experience with economic growth in last fifty years. The paper revolves around...
Recent growth accelerations in Africa are characterized by increasing productivity in agriculture, a declining share of the labor force employed in ag...
The Franc Zone in Africa
Fixed exchange rates have been a bad bargain for the CFA member countries. Under reasonable tradeoffs between output and inflation, these countries wo...
Assesses likely effects of the emerging market economies on world trade....
A Framework and Country Studies
When Does the Trade Balance Improve?
Policy Implications for Citizens Worldwide in the Twenty-first Century
Fluctuations in international trade, financial markets, and commodity prices, as well as the tendency of institutions to favour the interests of the b...
A Quantitative Analysis
Why should multilateral lending exist in a world where private capital markets are well developed and governments have their own bilateral aid program...
The Case of the PQLI
"Brookings Trade Forum is a series of annual volumes that provide authoritative and in-depth analysis on current and emerging issues in international ...
Projections and Reflections
Using a simple growth accounting framework, we project India's future potential output growth rate through 2025. We argue that there is perhaps more u...
Uniform tariffs have become increasingly popular in recent years, yet their economic rationale is not strong. We identify and evaluate three sets of r...
This annual series provides analysis on contemporary and emerging issues of international trade and macroeconomics. Practitioners and academics contri...
This text focuses on policy challenges for the next millennium and covers such issues as international financial links, currency boards, exchange rate...
Evidence from Tanzanian and Ethiopian Firms
a framework and some estimates