The article criticizes the World Bank as overy optimistic concerning its ability to raise the effectiveness of aid by concentrating aid on countries with ""good"" policies. It is shown that aid flows to the main recipient regions yielded the highest correlation to growth when their magnitudes...

The paper measures income elasticities of demand for manufacturing imports in China since 1990 disaggregated by major trading partners such as the US, Japan, Germany and rest of the EU. German exporters seem to have benefited from the hightest demand elasticities. The paper proposes explanatory...

This paper discusses the issue whether developing countries forego chances in world manufactured markets by protecting intermediate services against market entry of new suppliers. By scanning the empirical literature on effective rates of protection (ERP), the evidence is supportive. Yet, it...

Die Autoren setzen sich kritisch mit dem am 11.06.2021 vom Deutschen Bundestag verabschiedeten "Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz" auseinander. Insgesamt kommen sie zu dem Schluss, dass das Lieferkettengesetz erhebliche entwicklungspolitische Nebenwirkungen haben könnte, die die intendierten...