This article uses the database from the World Bank study, Bureaucrats in Business, to test the hypothesis central to the study and much more recent policy thinking that countries with large state sectors have a poorer than average economic performance. Two tests are conducted: one, a simple...

This article examines the de-industrialisation hypothesis in the context of recent developments in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Alternative versions of de-industrialisation are considered and a methodology for testing for such effects is put forward. This involves a cross-country analysis using a...

The contrast between industrial experience in East and South East Asia and Latin America is dramatic. Whilst a first generation of newly industrialized economies in East Asia grew rapidly on the basis of manufacturing expansion, the longer-established industries of Latin America have performed...

This paper examines current industrialization in the two regions from a comparative perspective.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes -- Foreword / Strange, Larry -- List of Contributors -- PART I: THE CONTEXT -- 1. Assessing China’s Impact on Poverty in the Greater Mekong Subregion: An Introduction / Jalilian, Hossein / Flower, Benjamin C. R. -- 2. Assessing...

International labour migration can be characterized in three ways - as human aspiration, tradition, and necessity. For some people, working overseas is a dream. For others, international labour mobility is a tradition. For a great number of people however, international labour migration is an...