Peace can generate an economic dividend, which can be further increased by appropriate economic reform. This dividend can in turn be used to raise popular support for conflict resolution measures along the road to achieving a final political settlement, a strategy that characterizes the recent...

The 10 states of Southeast Asia have combined to form the developing world’s most successful and durable regional grouping, the Association of Southeast Asian Na-tions, ASEAN. Economic integration among them is high and increasing. The ambi-tious ASEAN Economic Community is scheduled to take...

Even before the onset of the 2008 global financial crisis and ongoing European debt crisis, much attention has been given to the re-emergence of the Asian giants, the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India. Both countries have attained unprecedented growth and economic development-PRC and...

Energy-based economic development (EBED) can provide economic, social and environmental benefits related to national economic development and sustainable growth activities. As both policy and research interests in responsible mechanisms for economic development grow, EBED benefits are becoming...

In general, the Cape-Verdean emigration has a role in socioeconomic development of the country because represents one of the main channels of external financing. Even so, the sector still lacks recognition and political and economic actions to prioritize, value and qualify, in turn, better use...

This paper examines both the determinants and the effects of changes in the rigidity of labor market legislation across countries over time. Recent research identifies the origin of the legal system as being a major determinant of the cross-country variation in the rigidity of employment...

This short article discusses urban redevelopment, and its relation to economic productivity and various concepts of well being. It notes that solutions adopted in one era are apt to be the problems of the next. The article then introduces the four articles comprising the George Mason Law Review...

Artykuł ocenia rzeczywisty stopień wpływu stosowanych narzędzi polityki gospodarczej na poziom wzrostu i rozwoju w państwach o podobnym wyposażeniu kulturowym i instytucjonalnym. Wybór Barbadosu i Jamajki, dwóch krajów leżących w tym samym regionie geograficznym i do pierwszej połowy...

Urban Bias has long been Chinese government's dominant policies during economic development process. The government's behaviors come into the core to understand urban bias under China's government dominated economic development pattern. This paper tries to endogenize urban bias policies and...

The paper starts with a basic undetermined model that specifies four principle actors: landlords, peasants, the non-agricultural sector, and the government. Peasants and landlords are assumed to behave differently according to their own separate institutional attitudes, production function,...