Amartya Sen, the Nobel economist, explains why mortality should, or could, be an indicator of economic success. While mortality is not in itself an economic phenomenon, the influences that increase or reduce mortality often have distinctly economic causes. Consequently there is a prima facie...

This is the text of the Raul Prebisch Lecture, given at UNCTAD IX in Johannesburg on 29th April 1996.

Although the last three decades represent only the most recent episode of Egypt's "opening up to the world", their impact on the Egyptian economy and society seems much wider and goes much deeper than anything that Egypt had experienced before, this justifies the use of the relatively new term...

The dynamic multi-country model developed in this paper focuses on the interaction between education, international trade and economic growth. The model distinguishes between two froms of human capital, knowledge and efucation. Both are required in production. The objective is to examine how...

The wrongly called free trade between the first economic Power in the world and a backword country as Colombia, based on the experience of the Free Trade Agreement (TLC) between Mexico and USA, is shown, in practice, as assuring structural disequilibrium for Colombian economy and society....

Offshore Finance Centres (OFCs) have proliferated since the 1960s and many small jurisdictions and microstates around the world now host OFCs as part of the increasing globalisation of financial capital. This paper argues that microstates are becoming increasing vulnerable to forces outside of...

Der ifo Indikator für das Weltwirtschaftsklima ist nach dem leichten Rückgang im dritten Quartal wieder gestiegen. Während die Urteile zur aktuellen Lage nur minimal positiver ausfielen, ist der wirtschaftliche Ausblick für die nächsten sechs Monate hingegen spürbar optimistischer. Die...