Introduction -- PART I: DRIVERS OF STATE FRAGILITY -- Chapter 1: State fragility (SF) and human development -- Chapter 2: National constitutions as a source of state fragility -- Chapter 3: Institutions and state fragility -- PART 2: ECONOMIC GROWTH AND BREAKING OUT OF FRAGILITY -- Chapter 4:...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the competitiveness of selected services: business, financial, transport and travel services in developing countries in relation to that of the rest of the world based on three indices of revealed comparative advantage....

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the role of public and private transparency in attracting inward foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to developing countries. Design/methodology/approach – The study tests the hypothesis that developing countries with low levels of public and private...

Exports help developing countries to expand their production, promote industrialization and accelerate their economic growth. They played an important part in the economic transformation of Southeast Asian countries. The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) is one of the ways in which...