Luigi Bodio (1840-1920) was an Italian economist and statistician, considered one of the founders of the Italian Statistics. He was one of the 21 founding members of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) in 1885, ISI Director-General during the first 20 years (1885-1905) and ISI...

The Doing Business (DB) Project of the World Bank has a large impact on media, policy makers and private sector and could have a significant influence on future policies implementation. For these reasons it would be important to better evaluate the rank criteria and avoid the choice of...

In recent times, interest in currency boards has come back into vogue as a tool to stabilize the nominal exchange rate and accelerate the process of economic stabilization. The most important reasons for the renewed interest in currency boards must be found in the need to face the persistent...