We explore the role of sectoral debt dynamics in shaping business cycles in a sample of 52 Emerging Market Economies (EMEs) and Frontier Market Economies (FMEs) from 2005 to 2021. Higher household debt levels and growth are associated with significantly slower GDP growth in more developed EMEs...

To produce timely and accurate debt reports at the central government level, it is essential to have a sound legal, administrative, and operational framework in place for debt data compilation, reconciliation, accounting, monitoring, and reporting. This note focuses on the arrangements for...

Eine wissenschaftliche Verortung von Fair Trade, dem Versuch, beim Import aus Entwicklungsländern stärker soziale und ökologische Kriterien zur Geltung zu bringen, in der Theorie und Politik des Außenhandels. (Siegfried Lörcher)