This paper identifies and analyses some key challenges that OECD and partner economies may face over the coming 50 years if underlying global trends relating to growth, trade, inequality and environmental pressures prevail. For example, global growth is likely to slow and become increasingly...

The analysis of a new dataset on state prisoners in the 1900 to 1930 censuses reveals that immigrants rapidly assimilated to native incarceration patterns. One feature of these data is that the second generation can be identified, allowing direct analysis of this group and allowing their...

The study analyses whether there is long term comovement among the African daily stock market indices using bivariate and multivariate Johansen cointegration. Using the Vector Error Correction Model (VECM), we then examine the short run dynamics for the market portfolios where cointegration...

Le proposte legislative per la politica di coesione dell’UE per il periodo 2014-’20 fanno riferimento alla strategia macroregionale vista come sistema evoluto di cooperazione territoriale. Non esiste una definizione normalizzata per la strategia europea macroregionale; questo termine, si...

Using data from Demographic and Health Surveys for 15 sub-Saharan African countries, this article estimates the relationship between regional HIV prevalence and the change in individual human capital investment over time. Areas with higher levels of HIV experienced relatively larger declines in...

This study evaluates the effect of Measles Catchup Campaigns on child mortality in Africa.

This paper identifies and analyses some key challenges that OECD and partner economies may face over the coming 50 years if underlying global trends relating to growth, trade, inequality and environmental pressures prevail. For example, global growth is likely to slow and become increasingly...

Foreign Direct Investment has become one of the major challenges for the countries who participated in international economy. It affects the host country by increasing its national income, labor productivity and employment. It also has some spillover effects, including technology transfer, new...