This essay is an entry in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of International Economic Law from Edward Elgar Publishing, edited by Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer and Thomas Cottier and due to be published in 2016. Development is about aspiration — our longing for a better life as individuals and as a...

What became the post-War era's "less developed countries" (LDCs) varied enormously in their pre- modern or pre-industrial economic conditions. We hypothesize that if these countries are arrayed on a continuum of pre-industrial development such as that of the demographer Ester Boserup, countries...

Our paper focuses on the dynamics of development of human capital in economic development cycles (as described, for example, in the works of Becker or Barro). In the course of this research, we created an econometric model based on the modified Mankiw-Romer-Weil equation of the Cobb-Douglas...