Books reviewed: Tran Van Hoa and Charles Harvie, The Causes and Impact of the Asian Financial Crisis V.N. Balasubramanyan, Conversations with Indian Economists Taketoshi Ito and Anne Krueger, The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in East Asian Economic Development Kenneth Schreve and Matthew...

The intra-generational redistribution in the Argentinean pension program is assessed in a lifetime basis. Using household surveys, the lifetime flows of labor income, contributions and retirement benefits are simulated. Then, the expected present values of pre- and post-social security labor...

Recent contributions to the empirical growth literature show no tendency to convergence in specification, as researchers seek to identify new variables that can account for significant regional effects in earlier work. We conduct non-nested tests between the models of Barro (1997), Easterly and...