Most aspects of the argument of the UK government's 2000 White Paper on globalization and development stand up reasonably well to the findings of subsequent research. But there is significant new evidence in two areas: the size of the contribution of institutions to growth; and the complexity of...

A statistical study by R. Jackman and S. Roper (1987) concluded, in contradic tion of much circumstantial evidence, that current high levels of une mployment in the United Kingdom and other European countries are not due to structural mismatches in the labor market. This conclusion has been...

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...

Most economists think that H-O works well in theory, but badly in reality, whereas the opposite is closer to the truth. After a long decline, H-O has recently experienced an empirical revival, but the standard Samuelsonian formalisation of the theory is still unsatisfactory. A modified...

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...