development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries--Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil … recently that progress has slowed with an economic environment of lackluster global trade, not enough jobs coupled with skills …

document that large inflationary spikes appear to help unemployment to get back to pre-crisis levels. However, the counterpart …. This suggests that currency depreciation can help reduce unemployment only insofar as it is associated with inflation, and …

countries experiencing larger increases in unemployment and where credit growth during the pre-crisis period was more rapid …

-recession trend, suggesting hysteresis. Second, while inflation has decreased, it has decreased less than anticipated, suggesting a … unemployment on inflation, for given expected inflation, decreased until the early 1990s, but has remained roughly stable since …

This study explores the interaction between trade and geography in shaping the Islamic economic doctrine. We build a … model where an unequal distribution of land quality in presence of trade opportunities conferred differential gains from … trade across regions, fostering predatory behavior by groups residing in the poorly endowed territories. We show that in …