The article provides a retrospective analysis of the causes and consequences of the economic crisis in the UK in the 1970s, in which the country has lost its competitive advantages in relation to other industrial countries of the West. It is argued that the main factors of «British disease»...

The article provides a retrospective analysis of the causes and consequences of the economic crisis in the UK in the 1970s, in which the country has lost its competitive advantages in relation to other industrial countries of the West. It is argued that the main factors of «British disease»...

The study attempts to highlight the interrelation between three central points in the ongoing debate on the political economy of development: viability, surplus, and class-formation. A case study of the develop¬ment of rural labour systems in Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better...

Sugar was of the utmost importance for the development of a transatlantic trade during the early modern era. This working paper explores the impact of institutions and institutional changes of the colonial trade in sugar focusing on one country on the European semi-periphery, namely Sweden....

In a seminal contribution, Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001) evaluate the effect of property rights institutions on national income using estimated mortality rates of early European settlers as an instrument for the risk of capital expropriation. Returning to their original sources, I find...

The paper analyses the role of exchange rate in determining the export behaviour of Textiles and Clothing (T&C) sector. The study found an inverse relationship between the rises in exchange rate and exports. This suggests that the devaluation of Indian rupee has not helped to boost the exports...

Focuses on four labelling programmes, Rugmark, Kaleen, STEP, and Care & Fair.