This paper examines the economics of outsourcing and its impact on home and host countries. It argues that some of the explanations for this phenomenon, particularly by management science are too simplistic. It is also shown how (with a brief study of the Mexican case) 'cheap labour' which is...

The Dominican Republic and Haiti share one island but display different economic and environmental paths. Policy decisions in the Dominican Republic aimed at protecting environmental resources help in explaining its better economic and environmental performance as compared to Haiti. The paper...

The paper examines the impacts of ambiguity and ambiguity attitudes on macro-economic "Big Push" model. By formally modelling ambiguity, optimism and pessimism in economic industrialization, we show the results with Keynesian flavour: sufficient optimism can create the "Big Push" to help the...

In this study I investigate the birth order effect on educational attainment with careful consideration of the change in schooling differential between men and women over the last century. Using data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, I find that there is a significant negative birth order...

The recent enlargement of the European Union [EU] has enhanced interest in the causes and consequences of migration between Central and Eastern European [CEE] and Western European countries. This paper considers immigration from CEE countries into the UK and the consequences for these countries'...

This paper examines a major technology transfer project in Iran that represents a departure from historical practice and may constitute a new model for technology transfer. The project involves an alliance between Iranian and German enterprises with the objective of developing and...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a coherent framework in which the main characteristics of growth, uncertainty and crisis are connected. Within this framework, we find that these issues, which were so prominent in East Asia, are consequences of the chosen development strategy. Thus, we...

We study the fiscal implications of trade liberalization in a North-South trade model with nonhomothetic preferences. Combining a Ricardian trade model with a continuum of competitive goods and a public good, nonhomothetic preferences imply that both the global income distribution and the local...

The Harris-Todaro model of migration is modified to incorporate the impact of human capital, housing stock and the availability of publicly provided goods like health care and road provision in order to analyse the determinants of migration in different regions of Poland. The Seemingly Unrelated...

An examination of certain central themes common to literature on technology transfer such as technological independence, appropriateness of technology and completeness of technology transfer. It is claimed that these and associated concepts form a coherent paradigm. The critique is based on...