Wirtschaftliche und technologische Überlegenheit ermöglicht eine Vormachtstellung, doch welche Faktoren erklären ökonomische Prosperität, und was entscheidet über Armut und Reichtum von Nationen? Zu diesem Thema fand am 23. und 24. Mai 2014 eine wissenschaftliche Tagung unter der Leitung...

Many contemporary theoretic studies of trade over geography reduce to an ex- amination of constant-elasticity reactions to changes in iceberg trade costs. These impacts are readily analyzed in simple constant-returns models based on the Arm- ington (1969) assumption of regionally differentiated...

Purposeful, well-targeted and successful transformation policies will be elusive for a country or region that does not understand the relative importance of its sectoral sources of growth. This study aims at eliciting our understanding in this respect by providing an assessment of the relative...

While economic growth generally reduces income poverty, there are pronounced differences in the strength of this relationship across countries. Typical explanations for this variation include measurement errors in growth-poverty accounting and countries' different compositions of economic...