Summary The Collier-Dollar approach to aid allocation among countries has been less than fully embraced by donors--even those focused on poverty reduction--partly because it conflicts with the approach to aid allocation implied by the Millennium Development Goals. These two approaches are shown...

Most aspects of the argument of the UK government's 2000 White Paper on globalization and development stand up reasonably well to the findings of subsequent research. But there is significant new evidence in two areas: the size of the contribution of institutions to growth; and the complexity of...

Trade Policies and Developing Nations. By A.O. Krueger. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1995. Pp.xxvi + 124. £22.50 and £8.50. ISBN 0 8157 5056 0 and 5055 2 Constructing Democracy, Human Rights, Citizenship and Society in Latin America. Edited by Elizabeth Jelin and Eric Hershberg....

Whether a country's exports consist mainly of manufactures or mainly of primary products depends fundamentally on the skills of its labour force, relative to the extent of its natural resources. This proposition, derived from a modified version of Heckscher-Ohlin theory, is supported by a strong...

This paper assesses the contribution of land-use planning to the objectives of local sustainable development in some of the UK's most urbanized areas. Sustainable development provides the context within which local planning policies are now being prepared, and can be seen to be a potentially...

This paper argues that the main cause of the deteriorating economic position of unskilled workers in the United States and other developed countries has been expansion of trade with developing countries. In the framework of a Heckscher-Ohlin model, it outlines the evidence in support of this...