After seven years of arduous negotiations under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations was concluded in late 1993. The United States approved the agreement in late 1994, in time for the 1995 commencement of the new...

"Recent IFPRI research shows how coordinated investments in regional agricultural trade and productivity can leverage regional growth dynamics and improve Africa's competitiveness in an increasingly globalized world." from Text. This brief looks at investing in trade by targeting Africa's own...

"Recent IFPRI research shows how coordinated investments in regional agricultural trade and productivity can leverage regional growth dynamics and improve Africa's competitiveness in an increasingly globalized world." from Text. This brief looks at investing in trade by targeting Africa's own...

"While, politically speaking, China has a centralized government structure with strong top-down mandates, under the country’s current fiscal system, local governments are responsible for providing most local public goods and services. Large differences in economic structures and revenue bases...

The aim of this article is to study the evolution of the productive structure of the five Brazilian macro regions in the years 1985 and 1995 by means of interregional input-output tables estimated from the national tables published by IBGE. The results showed key-sectors in the five studied...