investigate whether changes in the international aid architecture?at the international and country level?have led to changes in … appears international aid architecture changes have led to more selectivity in aid allocations. The specific factors causing …

infrastructure are found to be negligible, and international aid has to be sizable to achieve significant welfare gains. In addition …

This paper reviews controversies regarding linkage of international trade and labor standards. Pressures for … international harmonization of labor standards arise in the context of increased trade between countries with large disparities in … standards should not be an option, but that international agreements on core labor standards, with voluntary compliance, may …

rates on real output growth for several European countries, using German interest rates as the instrument. We show that the …-looking monetary policy decisions. The bias is higher for countries whose monetary policy was more independent of Germany …

eligibility rule of the Bolsa Familia program in Brazil, one of the oldest and largest conditional cash transfers in the world, to …