Whether a country's exports consist mainly of manufactures or mainly of primary products depends fundamentally on the skills of its labour force, relative to the extent of its natural resources. This proposition, derived from a modified version of Heckscher-Ohlin theory, is supported by a strong...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore enterprise diversification amongst wetland farmers in Zambia as a way of reducing poverty and improving sustainability. This paper identifies ways in which such entrepreneurial activities can be supported and applied more widely....

Summary The Collier-Dollar approach to aid allocation among countries has been less than fully embraced by donors--even those focused on poverty reduction--partly because it conflicts with the approach to aid allocation implied by the Millennium Development Goals. These two approaches are shown...

Most aspects of the argument of the UK government's 2000 White Paper on globalization and development stand up reasonably well to the findings of subsequent research. But there is significant new evidence in two areas: the size of the contribution of institutions to growth; and the complexity of...