This paper analyzes the short-run trade effects of retaliatory tariffs against agriculture and food exports from the … United States. The results indicate that these tariffs caused a substantial decline in U.S. agriculture and food exports and …

India started the implementation of a rural public works program in 2006, covering all districts of the country within …

Large population / rapidly growing economies such as China and India have argued that in the upcoming UNFCCC …

and its possible ascension to reserve currency status. In an unstable and financially integrated world, governments …' precautionary demand for reserve assets is likely to increase. But the world then risks a third crisis of the global reserve system …, another re-run of the Triffin paradox, with an ever-growing emerging-world insurance demand loaded onto a small group of ever …

Over the past decade, non–Paris Club creditors, notably China, have become an important source of financing for low …

(Bangladesh, Kenya and Nigeria), and (iv) two initially poor countries that later took off (China and India). The results show … invest in health is severely hindered. For China and India, the magnitudes of such barriers were large (about twice as much … conditions in poor countries usually involves large-scale investment where such resources can be easily misallocated. We …

agricultural yields and low food prices. Critical to this success has been sustained public sector investment combined with a … decentralized and competitive research system in the US. Recent intellectual property reforms motivated increased private investment …. For new technologies, the case of agriculture demonstrates that government has an important role in antitrust, the …

Recent models of firm investment decisions stressing informational imperfections in capital markets provide a … foundation for interpreting evidence that movements in internal finance can predict investment opportunities. While such evidence … worth and the profitability of investment, and reasonable measures of net worth can be constructed. Second, rather than …