caring with employment is extremely difficult, so families are heavily reliant upon benefits. But do disability benefits …

sustainable development that genuine saving not be persistently negative. However, according to data provided by the World Bank …

The WTO’s Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations are blocked. After repeated attempts to make progress, trade …

We provide a novel set of stylized facts on firms engaging in international trade in services, using unique firm …-level data on services exports and imports in the United Kingdom in 2000- 2005. Less than 10% of firms trade in services but they … can be found in all sectors of the UK economy. While the services sector accounts for 80% of total exports and imports …

of development. We document the following regularities. First, as countries develop, their productive structure moves … from more volatile to less volatile sectors. Second, the level of specialization declines with development at early stages …, and slowly increases at later stages of development. Third, the volatility of country-specific macroeconomic shocks falls …

Interactions between economic development and financial development are studied by looking at the roles of financial … institutions in selecting R&D projects (including for both imitation and innovation). Financial development is regarded as the … development stages of an economy. At higher development stages a financing regime with ex post selection capacity is more …

of political freedoms versus economic development. This paper takes a new approach to provide an answer by using micro …

development, is significantly improved. …

of development. We document the following regularities. First, as countries develop, their productive structure moves … from more volatile to less volatile sectors. Second, the level of specialization declines with development at early stages …, and slowly increases at later stages of development. Third, the volatility of country- specific macroeconomic shocks falls …