. Some international organizations are rethinking their prior evaluation of development policies based largely on aggregate … further the implications of the basic needs approach to develop policies, and to implications for the international economic …The concept of basic needs is today at the center of many discussions about development and the international order …

gets accumulated and the specific historical trajectory of twentieth-century capitalism up to the present. …

THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ISRAEL (Pluto 2002). The authors also seem inspired, incognito, by our more recent papers …, including ‘It’s All About Oil’ (2003), ‘Clash of Civilization or Capital Accumulation?’ (2004), ‘Beyond Neoliberalism’ (2004 … does not prevent them from freely appropriating, wholesale fashion, our concepts, ideas and theories – including, among …

division of labor so enormously significant for the creation of a nation’s wealth that he devoted the first three chapters of ….S economy in the first decade of the 21st Century. This helps achieve a deeper understanding of the current global economic … crisis, and inter alia to identification of potentially effective, and potentially ineffective, public policies. Additional …

, Europe, Latin America, and the United States of December 1976. The focus was on global modelling, its formalization and … areas, global models become a tool for dialogue on the question of new international economic orders. The theoretical …A conference report on UNESCO and Fundacion Bariloche sponsored conference with policy-oriented scientists from Africa …

Multiple Cause (MIMIC) model. Our analysis is conducted on a cross-section of 107 countries; we focus on national causes and … equity markets; international imbalances and foreign reserve adequacy; macroeconomic policies; and institutional and … consequences of the crisis, ignoring cross-country "contagion" effects. Our model of the incidence of the crisis combines 2008 …

Multiple Cause (MIMIC) model. Our analysis is conducted on a cross-section of 85 countries; we focus on international linkages … that may have allowed the crisis to spread across countries. Our model of the cross-country incidence of the crisis … are both national (such as equity market run-ups that preceded the crisis) and, critically, international financial and …

of a country's institutions, heterogeneity, and a number of different international indices and rankings. I have little … success; small countries are more open to international trade than large countries, but are not systematically different …I search for a 'scale' effect in countries. I use a panel data set that includes 200 countries over forty years and …

Does leaving a currency union reduce international trade? We answer this question using a large annual panel data set … covering over 230 countries from 1948-97. During this sample over one hundred pairs of countries had currency union … factors. Assuming symmetry, we estimate that a pair of countries that starts to use a common currency experiences a doubling …