ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper presenting findings of an Experiment on econometric modelling of the long term employment impact of disarmament - examines consequences for regional level economic growth and economic structure, world-wide employment creation, and income and consumption in...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper discussing trade liberalization trade policies capable of promoting the integration of developing countries into the international economic system - comments on shortcomings of economic development associated with import substitution; examines the need to combine...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of education within economic development in order to highlight the stage of knowledge (theoretically and practically) and to assess the advances in terms of scientific research. Examining the dynamics of scientific studies, one observes that...

The ultimate objective of the present paper is to empirically investigate the effectiveness of competition policy in developed and developing countries. Although its importance is continuously increasing, the effectiveness of competition policy still seems to lack the attention that it would...

Globalisation in the recent times has resulted in increased interdependence between the countries. While the process of globalisation holds the promise of development for all, it has been argued by various researchers that situation on ground is otherwise. There is considerable disagreement...

ILO pub-wep pub. WEP conference paper reviewing employment implications of trade relations between developed countries and developing countries in relation to North South dialogue - examines interdependence in terms of economic growth, standard of living and unemployment, studies future...

ILO pub-wep pub. WEP conference paper reviewing employment implications of trade relations between developed countries and developing countries in relation to North South dialogue - examines interdependence in terms of economic growth, standard of living and unemployment, studies future...

Examines how the outlook for economic growth in 2009 has changed, both at the global and regional levels. On the basis of the newly released data, provides an update of ILO global scenarios for unemployment and vulnerable employment.

This paper investigates how innovation potential of a country contributes to avoid or escape the middle income trap. We measure innovation potentials of 77 countries from 1975 to 2010 from patent data. Then, we test whether indigenous innovative efforts or foreign ones help avoid and escape...