This paper deals with poverty in developing countries.

This study analyzes the debt-relief initiative which as introduced by the IMF and the World Bank, with the support of the developed contries, for Highly-Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs).

I first describe how concerns about development of less developed countries were reflected in the evolution of the multilateral trading system, from GATT 1947 to the conclusion of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negociation and the establishment of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). In...

Human development is defined as the improvement of the human condition so that people live longer, healthier and fuller lives. In the development of the concept of HD under the leadership of Mahbub ul Haq, some aspects of HD were related to people's physical well-being, such as health, nutrition...

The costs of import substitution (IS) as a strategy for industrialization, which was deemed synonymous with economic development by many development economists of the fifties and sixties, were shown to be substantial in the influential and nuanced studies of the seventies and eighties under the...

This paper investigates the role of social learning in the diffusion of a new agricultural technology in a developing country: Ghana. We use unique data on farmers' communication patterns to define each individual's information neighborhood, the set of others from whom he might learn. Our...

Regressions across countries from 1960 to 1995 are discussed to document African poor performance in terms of infant and child mortality, life expectation, and school enrollment rates, controlling for national income, women's and men's schooling, and urbanization. It is concluded that...

The paper reviews the experience of developing countries in the multilateral trading system forme the conclusion of the GATT in 1947 and the establishment of the WTO in 1995. It traces the origins of GATT and the history of eight successive rounds of multilateral negotiations under its auspices...

This paper examines the apparent conflict between the classical assumption of a bargaining agricultural sector wage and the neo-classical assumption of a competitive wage in the context of a labour surplus developing economy. It concludes that the relatively inelastic supply of labour hours...