This report describes the complex and changing interrelationship between trade, domestic investment and foreign direct … investment (FDI) and provides examples of good practices in trade policymaking that create a healthy investment climate in … developing countries. A two-by-two taxonomy is used to analyse the impact of policies affecting imports and exports in both host …

price volatility or specialization dominates terms of trade and thus aggregate volatility in poor countries is thus …Poor countries are more volatile than rich countries, and we know this volatility impedes their growth. We also know … that commodity price volatility is a key source of those shocks. This paper explores commodity and manufactures prices over …

Because of concern that OECD tariff reductions will translate into worsening export performance for the least developed … countries, trade preferences have proven a stumbling block to developing country support for multilateral liberalization. We …

The paper surveys the interactions between aid and trade, distinguishing between policies and outcomes as well as … recipient’s welfare via the trade channel, before turning to the empirical and institutional literature on the topic. It …

start with the relation between development and rural-urban migration. Moving beyond the coarse rural-urban distinction, we … with development. As we discuss, these spatial dynamics often mask important differences across sectors. We then turn our … development, we draw on empirical evidence from both the historical evolution of today's developed economies and comparisons …

, and slowly increases at later stages of development. Third, the volatility of country-specific macroeconomic shocks falls … with the level of development. We argue that many theories linking volatility and development are not consistent with these … volatility into these four sources, quantify their contribution to aggregate volatility, and study how they relate to the stage …

, and slowly increases at later stages of development. Third, the volatility of country- specific macroeconomic shocks falls … with the level of development. We argue that many theories linking volatility and development are not consistent with these … volatility into these four sources, quantify their contribution to aggregate volatility, and study how they relate to the stage …

It is widely recognized that fragile states are key symptoms of under-development in many parts of the world. Such …, mainstream development economics has not dealt in any systematic way with such concerns and the implications for development … assistance. This paper puts forward a framework for analyzing fragile states and applies it to a variety of development policies …