The article analyses conditional <italic>β</italic>-convergence among the low income countries using a panel data framework covering the period 1960 to 2008. The estimation of conditional income convergence is based on the augmented Solow model with system GMM technique for the dynamic panel data. More...

Using data as reported in the <italic>JEL</italic> in 2000 and 1985, the authors examine the pricing and other characteristics of books. There has been a substantial rise in book prices, even in real terms, between the two years, which the smaller rise in average page length appears insufficient to justify. A...

We conclude that individual aid sector volatility matters as well as total aid volatility. Easily, the most important contributor to total volatility is debt aid. The most volatile aid sectors per se include debt, industry, and humanitarian, and the least include education and health. In several...

We analyse the impact of aid volatility on GDP/GNP shares of expenditure. Given the level of aid, positive and negative volatility reduce investment and government expenditure shares. But the former reduces import share and the latter increases consumers' expenditure share.