achieve the poverty Millennium Development Goal ahead of schedule, but other goals are likely to remain elusive before 2015 …-even more rapid growth and poverty reduction are possible, but important targets in the areas of education, health, and …

As the Eurozone crisis drags on, it is evident that a part of the problem lies in the architecture of debt and its … liabilities within the Eurozone and, more generally, the European Union. This paper argues that a large part of the problem can be …

affecting export performance and causing rising current account imbalances. While the fiscal position remained manageable before …

The paper assesses the contribution of key factors associated with external imbalances in the Eurozone through the … dynamics in the Eurozone periphery than in the core, whereas competitiveness has been a less prominent factor in the periphery … lending in investments prone to speculative bubbles. Coordination of fiscal policy across the Eurozone would facilitate the …

services, is a key challenge in the fight against poverty. Many of the poor (and particularly the extreme poor) in rural …, whenever possible, provides evidence of the effects of these determinants on competitiveness, growth, and poverty in Latin … (growth), micro (productivity at the firm level), and poverty (the earnings of poor/rural people). In addition, the paper …

largely accounted for by the technology trap responsible for the poverty trap. This result is supported by empirical evidence …