. Using a novel data set we offer new evidence supporting unambiguously the view that, in sharp contrast with US, Australia …

Even though Australia has experienced frequent and large commodity export price shocks like the Third World, it seems … de-industrialization and distributional impact, and policy responses. In what way has Australia been different from other …

. Australia and California are two economies having the rare distinction of achieving 150 years of sustained high and rising … controls over immigration or capital movements, or trade policy. Australia did, and after 1900 pursued an increasingly …

While India is distinctive among developing countries for its fast-growing service sector, sceptics have raised doubts …

/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three … time. In contrast the North‐China gap falls from 57.2 to 13.1 between 1990 and 2009, and India from 70.4 to 38.1 using … market exchange rates and from 23.4 to 5.5 for China and from 20.7 to 11.4 for India using PPP rates. We calculate the …

on Hindu-Muslim violence in India. Our main result is that an increase in per-capita Muslim expenditures generates a …. These findings speak to the origins of Hindu-Muslim violence in post-Independence India …

This paper analyzes the effects of the reforms initiated in India following the balance of payments (BOP) crisis of … changes in performance since the reforms, which started in China in 1979 and in India in 1991. Such a comparison shows more … progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and India lags behind other South Asian countries. The responsiveness …