Esta presentación fue realizada en la Reunión Subregional de Centroamérica de la Red de Integración y Comercio del Diálogo Regional de Política para la celebrada los días 13 y 14 de junio de 2005 en San Salvador, El Salvador. Los temas son: la definición de unión aduanera (UA), el...

This presentation was commissioned by the Trade and Integration Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the Subregional Central America Meeting celebrated on June 13th and 14th, 2005 in San Salvador, El Salvador. This presentation covers the common customs tariff (CCT); other barriers on...

Esta presentación fue realizada en la Reunión Subregional de Centroamérica de la Red de Integración y Comercio del Diálogo Regional de Política para la celebrada los días 13 y 14 de junio de 2005 en San Salvador, El Salvador. Los temas son: la definición de unión aduanera (UA), el...

This presentation was commissioned by the Trade and Integration Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the Subregional Central America Meeting celebrated on June 13th and 14th, 2005 in San Salvador, El Salvador. This presentation covers the common customs tariff (CCT); other barriers on...

This paper provides the text of the Gunnar Myrdal Lecture presented at the U.N. Palais des Nations in 2003. The lecture suggests that the gaps in income per capita between richer and poorer countries largely reflect the quality of their institutions. Institutions, by reducing uncertainty, are...

This paper provides the text of the Gunnar Myrdal Lecture presented at the U.N. Palais des Nations in 2004. The lecture addresses the present economic and political conditions in an integrated Europe and the challenges ahead, particularly how the expansion of the European Union will require...

The impact of the dependence on primary commodities for economic development is analysed within the framework of growth regressions. While there is no evidence of a generalized primary commodity curse, reliance on primary commodities does retard growth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Which factors...

This paper discusses the policy options that resource-rich economies need to implement in order to promote capital formation and sustainable development.

This essay discusses the challenges in financing economic development in the eastern European and CIS economies. The advantages and pitfalls of extensively relying external capital are explored.

Despite recent progress in developing a political consensus that policy changes are needed at both the domestic and international level to address climate change, the required political and public will is still insufficient to overcome a number of political barriers limiting progress.This essay...