This paper develops a new index which provides early warning signals of a growth crisis in the event of large external shocks in low-income countries. Multivariate regression analysis and a univariate signaling approach are used to map information from a parsimonious set of underlying policy,...

This paper attempts to assess the incremental external financing requirements occasioned by changes in world food prices, due to implementation of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, for a sample of 57 developing countries. Based on estimates of changes in food prices due to the Round...

We develop a semi-structural new-Keynesian open-economy model, with separate food and non-food inflation dynamics, for forecasting and monetary policy analysis in low-income countries and apply it to Kenya. We use the model to run several policy-relevant exercises. First, we filter international...

Past, present and the future of agriculture -- Agricultural heritage and sustainable food systems -- A view to protecting and safeguarding our heritage -- Globally important agricultural heritage systems: concept and the initiative -- Dynamic conservation of GIAHs -- Lessons learned, experiences...

Jobs and job search in developing countries: nice work if you can get it! -- Employment and labor intermediation services: what are they and what are they good for? -- Stage 1: Building core employment services -- Stage 2: From employment to labor intermediation services -- A stage 3? Labor...

Debates about labour markets and the identity of those who, in an economic sense, circulate within them, together with the controversies such issues generate, have in the past been confined by development studies to the Third World. Now these same concerns have shifted, as the study of...