This paper depicts the agricultural policy reforms and structural changes in Bangladesh from independence to the present times. Bangladesh agriculture has experienced major structural changes and achieved major successes over the last three and a half decades. Reforms began in the late 1970s and...

Recent macroeconomic research discusses credit market imperfections as a key channel through which inequality retards growth. Limited borrowing prevents the less affluent individuals from investing the efficient amount, and the inefficiencies are considered to become stronger as inequality...

This paper develops a growth theory that accounts for the evolution of trade policy, underlying internal class conflicts, and global income divergence over the last few centuries. By analyzing political responses to the distributional effects of international trade, this paper finds a prominent...

The barrier model of productivity growth suggests that individual country productivity is related to the world technology frontier disturbed by national barriers. We offer a country study of the barrier model exploiting the dramatic changes in the linkages to the world economy in South Africa....

En este documento se analiza el surgimiento y papel que el conjunto de países agrupados en la sigla BRICS (Brasil, Rusia, India, China y Sudáfrica) puedan desempeñar en la economía mundial, dentro del marco de la crisis internacional por la que atraviesa el capitalismo. También se...

This paper reviews the development experience since the 1980s and finds room for guarded optimism about what we can learn form it. A global consensus is emerging on the need for macro-economic stability through prudent fiscal, monetary and foreign exchange policies.

We explore the role of the ownership structure of capital in an economy that suffers from barriers to entry and an imperfect financial system. In such an environment, an unequal distribution of capital provides an explanation for trade flows and trade gains even when countries do not differ in...

Brazil is a country with long-standing ambitions for a major role in the world economy and in global governance, but its footprint in various measures of both remains relatively modest. On current trends, the gap between ambition and achievement will likely remain large, so we provide a critique...

En este artículo se estudian el impacto de los cambios en el Sistema Generalizado de Preferencias (SGP) de la Unión Europea (UE) sobre sus propias importaciones, procedentes de los países beneficiarios del SGP de la ASEAN y China, y de América Latina, y el uso de los beneficios del SGP por...