The experience of the five examined industries (agro-food in Chile, cut flowers in Kenya,garment in Lesotho and in Mauritius and seafood in Thailand) demonstrates that non-traditional industries can emerge and achieved strong growth rates in very diverse settings in terms of geography and...

The question that needs to be asked with regards to the impact of tourism on Jamaica is do we in Jamaica know the real potential of the industry?

In order for Jamaica to transition from a Developing Country to a Developed Country it will be highly necessary to create a Knowledge based society, the inability to seriously overcome this challenge will mean Jamaica will be in transition to a developed country for an infinite number of years....

Paper presented at St. Antony's College in Oxford in 1965. The Czechoslovak Economic Reform of 1960's was designed on the basis of the new theoretical approach that rejected the incompatibility of planning and market economy and accepted the Convergence Hypothesis.

Estimates of child poverty are based on the percentage of children living in poor households, which ignores the issue of intrahousehold allocation. It is commonly argued that the fact that data are collected at the household level means it is not possible to report figures relating to the number...

Is public R&D spending complementary and thus “additional” to private R&D spending, or does it substitute for and tend to “crowd out” private R&D? Conflicting answers are given to this question. We survey the body of available econometric evidence accumulated over the past 35 years. A...

There has been an increasing awareness within the developed world that the cultural industries may play an important role in economic development. The fact that most of the commercial cultural industries have relatively low distribution costs, and that the gains from the mass production of a...

Structural Adjustment – Key Policy Issues highlights two challenging issues for policy advisers and policy makers alike — the evaluative framework used for assessing reform proposals and the development of implementation strategies to give effect to policy changes. The Commission argues that...

This paper finds that the rapid update of information and communication technologies contributed to Australia’s strong productivity performance in the 1990s and the contribution to labour productivity growth was at least as strong as it was in the US. Australia generated a productivity...