Given the increasing sensitivity of buyers in the richer countries towards quality of goods they consume, low-quality exports largely constrain export-growth of the developing countries. This element documents the attempts to estimate cross-country quality variations and reviews the demand and...

Deutschland driftet auseinander und die Kluft zwischen Reichtum und Armut wird gröe︣r: Gerade einmal 40.000 Super-Reichen gehört fast ein Fünftel des gesamten Volksvermögens. Vierzig Millionen Menschen dagegen besitzen fast nichts IBM oder nur Schulden. Arme sterben sogar 10 bis 20 Jahre...

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the...