life expectancies in poor and rich countries began to converge. Another example comes from China, where authorities …

competitive devaluations. The sheer size of China, and its lower sterilization costs suggests that China may be the winner of a … and precautionary motives in the context of China may be challenged by a version of the quot;peso problem.quot; Hoarding …

evolve as we expected. China is likely to graduate from the periphery to the center in the next few years. This graduation … cycle. Finally, recent policy initiatives suggest that India is poised to replace China as the dominant periphery country …

-style institutions? More generally, in an interdependent world, would we expect all countries to adopt the same institutions? To provide … theoretical answers to this question, we develop a simple model of economic growth in a world in which all countries benefit and … potentially contribute to advances in the world technology frontier. A greater gap of incomes between successful and unsuccessful …