progress . The Bretton Woods Institutions (World Bank, IMF, GATT) were based on a post World War II model . They encouraged one … national donations based on taxes, a model that no longer works well . At the same time the globalization of the world economy …

markets to international trade and foreign investment. Yet most countries have not simply opened up their markets. They have … favor some industries over others. This leads to the following question: is openness to trade and FDI alone sufficient to … developing countries benefit from abandoning policy neutrality vis-a-vis trade, FDI and resource allocation across industries. …

This study analyzes the impact of trade on cross-country inequality using a panel data set from 65 developing counties … over a long period 1970-2008. This study differs from the existing literature on distributional impact of trade by … explicitly noting the importance of development stage in shaping the link. The analysis shows that the effect of trade on …

The positive and negative experiences of the World Economic Crisis should be used for recomposing the world’s economic … map. For many countries it is a sign for changing the economic model if the country wants to keep up with the new world …