Modeling the offshoring of white-collar services : from comparative advantage to the new theories of trade and foreign direct investment / James R. Markusen -- Service offshoring : threats and opportunities / Daniel Trefler -- Tradable services : understanding the scope and impact of services...

<DIV>For dozens of developing countries, the financial upheavals of the 1980s have set back economic development by a decade or more. Poverty in those countries has intensified as they struggle under the burden of an enormous external debt. In 1988, more than six years after the onset of the crisis,...</div>