This working paper used a randomized controlled trial to estimate the effectiveness of a U.S. government-funded farmer assistance program that trained more than 50,000 farmers throughout Armenia. Training did not increase household income or consumption, or affect mediating outcomes, such as...

Simultaneously with the increasing labor market flexibility is necessary to increase the protection of employees, including the individual responsibility on their efforts to look for a job. The emergence and expansion of wage labor led to the adoption of relevant legislation, diversification and...

This Paper uses 67 measures of trade policy and trade liberalization to ask if membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is associated with more liberal trade policy. Almost no measures of trade policy are significantly...