Panel data on 54 developing countries between 1960 and 2000 are used to investigate how the impact of opening to trade … on economic growth is affected by wealth inequality. The results suggest (a) that opening to trade tends to accelerate …

that basis, it is further argued that UNCTAD -- the UN body centrally concerned with trade and development and related … negotiations and the establishment of the World Trade Organization have contributed to the emergence of a new world order in … matters extending well beyond traditional trade matters. What the implications of the new order are for developing countries …

trade facilitation which is measured by the number of documents and the time for exports and imports is strongly correlated …Although there are numerous empirical studies on the effect of trade facilitation on international trade and GDP, there … have been no studies on the association between trade facilitation and poverty as well as inequality. This paper examines …

The dissatisfaction of developing countries with the new Trade Round surfaced first in the WTO meeting in Seattle in … with developing countries during the so-called “Doha Development Round” The author refers to the particular example of … industrializers and the failure of recent across-the-board and universal trade liberalization, he proposes the necessary changes in …

suggests that, in addition to financial de-repression, there has been a major new element in the development of DC financial …

growth and human development beyond the mechanisms of law channels. As a policy implication results support benefits of the … rule of law and quality of regulation as channels to economic growth and human development. …

development (longevity, education and literacy) for their citizens. This we label this RICE (relative income conversion efficiency … development. This probably reflects West Africa's highly disease-prone natural environment. The third and fourth variables relate … to perform badly at converting material resources into human development. By contrast, a variable relating to state …

The Millennium Development Goals have become the frame of reference for most of the development community: the standard …