Review of: Making Capitalism. The Social and Cultural Construction of a South Korean Conglomerate. By Roger L. Janelli, Dawnhee Yim. 1995. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge

While South Asia’s average gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the past decade was only slightly lower than in East Asia and the Pacific, the region significantly lags behind in terms of infrastructure access. In some cases, South Asia’s access levels are more similar to sub-Saharan...

This paper proposes an economic logic for underpinning decentralization in the infrastructure sectors. It starts by detailing the definition of the infrastructure gap and the methodologies to calculate it. It provides some global trends for developing countries in terms of the gap and briefly...

Los programas de austeridad para cambiar la inflación usualmente requieren sacrificios en términos de crecimiento económico, y la distribución de esos sacrificios puede afectar la naturaleza del régimen político del país que los aplique, especialmente en el Tercer Mundo.

The Handbook on Contingent Valuation is unique in that it focuses on contingent valuation as a method for evaluating environmental change. It examines econometric issues, conceptual underpinnings, implementation issues as well as alternatives to contingent valuation. Anna Alberini and James Kahn...