The paper departs from the perception that trade in services in general and developing countries' exports in services in particular are dynamic segments of world trade. Both total trade data as well as US import trade figures do not support this perception. Success episodes such as the recent...

Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for more than three decades. The large majority of developing countries now regularly conduct a variety of household surveys, and their information base with respect to poverty and...

Gemessen an den jeweiligen Bedürfnissen der Bevölkerung, können Standards in Ent-wicklungsländern sowohl zu hoch als auch zu niedrig sein. Beides ist möglich. Zu nied-rige Standards sind oft darauf zurückzuführen, dass es an Verfahren fehlt, die kollekti-ves Handeln ermöglichen....

Developing countries are constrained in financing current account deficits as real capital mobility is still far from perfect. At the same time, capital flows to these countries proved to be extremely volatile. The paper argues that the long-term problem of "too little" should not be confused...