Many developing market economies were strongly distorted during the 1960s and 1970s by fashionable policies to force industrialisation and they experienced growth collapses when exposed to the price shocks of the 1970s. In this context, the centrally planned economies were even more highly...

This research analyzes the effects of the similarities in economic size and institutional level on bilateral trade. It is interested, whether the similarities at the country size and institutional level encourage enlarging volume of international trade between countries. Using panel data of the...

"An examination of privatization from an economic perspective. The authors evaluate the effects of ownership transfer on economic performance and market structure in seven developing countries: Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Kenya, and Malawi"--Handbook of...