Introduction -- PART I: DRIVERS OF STATE FRAGILITY -- Chapter 1: State fragility (SF) and human development -- Chapter 2: National constitutions as a source of state fragility -- Chapter 3: Institutions and state fragility -- PART 2: ECONOMIC GROWTH AND BREAKING OUT OF FRAGILITY -- Chapter 4:...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the competitiveness of selected services: business, financial, transport and travel services in developing countries in relation to that of the rest of the world based on three indices of revealed comparative advantage....

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to assess the implications of US trade preferences under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and its impact on beneficiary country exports. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is to use Wilcoxon signed rank test and time series...