Studies of economic growth have produced much evidence of similarities in development patterns of most countries. There are always dangers in cross-country studies that unique historical, economic and political' factors might be ignored, but when countries are grouped according to size, resource...

As tariffs fall over time, attention inevitably focuses on non-tariff measures (NTMs). Governments are increasingly imposing mandatory technical regulations on products for reasons of security, health or the environment and have facilitated the introduction of non-mandatory (voluntary) standards...