When investments in education in developing countries do not produce higher growth, the problem may be the quality of the schooling, of the education infrastructure, of the initial endowment in human capital, and of the system's ability to equitably distribute educational services. The consensus...

This paper documents a decreasing trend in the geographical concentration of EU agrofood imports. Decomposing the concentration indices into intensive and extensive margins components, we find that the decrease in overall concentration indices results from two diverging trends: the pattern of...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical and empirical background overview of the interactions between aid and foreign direct investment (FDI) policies, and trade flows and policies, taking the perspective of outcomes from the point of view of the recipient developing country. A...

"This paper uses a computable general equilibrium model to assess the welfare impact of commodity price inflation in Tanzania and possible tax policy responses in the short, medium, and long term. The results suggest that global commodity inflation since 2006 may have had a significantly...