competition and strong institutions. Through this lens, trade reform can be promoted as a necessary tool of growth and development …The WTO Ministerial Meeting in Hong Kong in December 2005 made some progress in advancing the Doha Development Agenda …

recommend a holistic adoption of TQM and customer services tenets and its entrenchment as policies in all organizations for … quality customer services and satisfactions. …

, prescriptions for economic growth have come and gone. Often motivated more by ideology than practicality, these blueprints have had … that have succeeded in developing their own economies have actually done it. He shows that economic development is a … their land, labor, capital, and infrastructure. Countries need to identify and facilitate the development of those …

, prescriptions for economic growth have come and gone. Often motivated more by ideology than practicality, these blueprints have had … that have succeeded in developing their own economies have actually done it. He shows that economic development is a … their land, labor, capital, and infrastructure. Countries need to identify and facilitate the development of those …

This paper investigates the effect of FDI on economic growth conditional on the institutional quality of host countries … develop several arguments to show that institutional quality modulates the intensity of FDI impact on growth. Using a … threshold of institutional quality that influence the FDI growth effect. These results have significant implications for policy …

Replication of two recent studies of growth determinants shows that results are sensitive to the choice of data from … which growth rates are calculated, especially with respect to whether economic convergence has occurred. Previous warnings … (growth rates) have been largely ignored at the cost of possibly contaminating the conclusions. …

Results of numerous cross-country growth regressions have been found to be sensitive to specification, time period or …-hand side variables. In this paper we suggest that a more fundamental problem may exist with respect to the growth rates used in … the majority of studies. Differences in measured growth rates are severe across widely-used sources. More critically …

prices, saving rate, output growth), and on inter-generational welfare in developing economies. It does so by developing a …

This paper examines how the role of patents and utility models in innovation and economic growth varies by level of … economic development. Using a panel dataset of over 70 countries, we find that patent protection is an important determinant of … innovation and that patentable innovations contribute to economic growth in developed countries, but not in developing. Instead …

stability; foreseethe impacts of macroeconomic policieson developing-country growth; increaseboth market access and capacity …