Poverty targeting programs can in principle be assessed as projects using the tools of either cost-benefit or cost-effectiveness analysis. In practice where quantitative assessments have been made they are principally a form of cost-effectiveness calculations based on costs per unit of benefit...

The very rapid economic growth of the People's Republic of China (henceforth PRC), its dramatic success in world export markets and its heavy receipts of foreign direct investment (FDI) have generated much thought and debate in policy and business circles in different parts of the world. This...

This ADB Institute study uses standard export indicators to determine (i) how export performance evolved during the emergence of the dynamic East-Asian trade-FDI nexus and (ii) whether successful trading economies were already starting to lose their competitiveness before the Asian crisis...

This paper explores the competitive threat posed by the People's Republic of China to markets in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). It focuses on the impact of PRC's rise as a major exporter of manufactures, but it also considers bilateral trade between LAC and PRC. In response to falling...