Foreign trade affects women's wages and jobs, their household work, and their leisure. This paper develops a model which covers not only all the sectors of the market economy, but also social reproduction and leisure activities, for women and men separately. The model, which in other respects is...

World-wide cross-country regressions are used to examine South Asia?s export structure through the lens of Heckscher-Ohlin trade theory. By comparison with other regions, South Asia?s exports are unusually concentrated on labour-intensive manufactures. This distinctive export structure is shown...

The plummeting cost of international business travel and communication has enabled highly-skilled workers resident in developed countries to become increasingly involved in production in developing countries, where they can co-operate with less-skilled workers whose wages are lower than those of...

The theoretical insights of Heckscher and Ohlin, Feenstra and Hanson, and Tang and Wood between them provide a plausible explanation of the varied effects of globalisation on wage inequalities in developed and developing countries. In combination, these three theories can explain, among other...

The Collier-Dollar approach to aid allocation has been less than fully embraced by donors - even those focused on poverty reduction - and has come into conflict with a different approach based on the Millennium Development Goals. These two approaches are shown to be special cases of a more...