This paper examines the problems of public and institutional reforms within the context of a so-called predatory state. The predatory state is one that acts in the interest of an elite rather than pursue a coherent strategy for economic development. The argument is that, even after the process...

Whose Reality Counts? Putting the First Last. By Robert Chambers. London: Intermediate Technology Publications, 1996. Pp.xx + 297. £3.25. ISBN 1 85339 386 X Fighting for the Rainforest: War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone. By Paul Richards. Oxford: The International African Institute in...

The cycle of various economic stabilisation efforts in Argentina during the 1980s has often been characterised as reflecting either policy confusion on the part of officials or their unwillingness to depart from an obsolete model of economic development. Hence, according to some, the alternation...

The Divided Economy of Mandatory Palestine. By Jacob Metzer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp.xxii + 275. £40. ISBN 0 521 46550 8 The Political Economy of Market Reform in Jordan. By Timothy J. Piro. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. Pp.xvi + 152. $54.00 and $19.95. ISBN 0...

We generalize an integral which arises in several areas in probability and statistics and which is at the core of the field of distance correlation, a concept developed by Székely et al. (2007) to measure dependence between random variables.

The purpose of this research is to examine some competing assumptions regarding the hiring behaviour of major league baseball clubs. One hypothesis is that owners and general managers of teams enter the free agent market with a view to attracting the best talent available in order to win games....

We obtain approximations to the distribution of the exponent in the matrix Fisher distributions on SO(p) and on O(p) whose density with respect to Haar measure is proportional to exp(Tr GX0tX). Similar approximations are found for the distribution of the exponent in the Bingham distribution,...

In a recent book entitled Pop Internationalism Paul Krugman takes to task several prominent commentators who in recent years have published works decrying the loss of competitive position of the United States in an increasingly global economy. In particular, Krugman critically considers and...

The decade of the 1980s saw profound changes in the political economy of Latin America. The stabilisation and debt crises forced many countries in the region to re-examine their economic policies individually as well as collectively. The consequence was both a movement in the direction of...