, 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 …

Feenstra and Hanson (1997) have argued in the context of the North American Free Trade Agreement that US outsourcing to …, relative wages for human capital declined by 2 percent during 1995-2002 and increased by 41 percent during 1994-2002 in Poland …. In both countries outsourcing contributes roughly 35 percent to these changes in the relative wages for skilled worker …

achievements in education as well as its internationalization of education. Since 1978, the landmark for the foundation of the …

of empirical attention, but theoretical micro-foundations for this mechanism are limited. Here we develop a dynamic model … 'reinventing the wheel.' We use fixed effects and nearest neighbour matching estimators on a panel of plant-level data for Colombia …

individuals to engage in exchange where trade is not mutually profitable. We first establish a no-trade theorem for this … environment. A laboratory experiment is conducted, where trade is found to occur between 16% and 32% of the time, depending on the … sellers. An equilibrium model with naive, or 'cursed' beliefs accounts for some of the behaviour findings, but open questions …

sequential and simultaneous versions of the game is for players to always fight, independent of their own strength. In our …

new mantra of "aid-for-trade" rather than on hard evidence on what works and what doesn’t. On the one hand, rigorous … systematically building impact evaluation into trade projects could lead to better policy design and a more credible case for "aid-for-trade." …The focus of trade policy has shifted in recent years from economy-wide reductions in tariffs and trade restrictions …