for the modern technology to be used. The possibility of a poverty trap induced by high aid volatility is first examined …

prospective students as well as their consequences, drawing upon economic theory and empirical evidence …

This essay surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty. I focus on two measures of …

We test the view the large differences in income levels we see across the world are due to differences in underlying … characteristics, i.e. fundamental forces, against the alternative that there are poverty traps. Taking geographical variables as … fundamental characteristics, we find that we can reject fundamental forces in favor of a poverty trap model with high and low …