This guide is to be used as a ‘beginners guide’ or first reference material by anyone who wants to gain a quick overview of CITES and the EU wildlife trade regulations and their main provisions. It is by no means exhaustive; it is intended to provide people who are new to the subject of...

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...

We examine the cyclical properties of development aid using bilateral data for 22 donors and over 100 recipients during 1970?2005. We find that bilateral aid flows are on average procyclical with respect to business cycles in donor and recipient countries. However, they become countercyclical...

We analyze the growth impact of official development assistance to developing countries. Our approach is different from that of previous studies in two major ways. First, we disentangle the effects of two kinds of aid: developmental and non-developmental. Second, our specifications allow for the...

In recent years, China has become a major power on the African continent, not only with respect to trade and investment, but also as a donor of development aid. Although there is no accurate measure of the exact size of China’s aid program, since China rather underestimates the volume in...