Books reviewed: Takatoshi Ito and Anne O. Krueger (eds.), Governance, Regulation, and Privatization in The Asia-Pacific Region. Elhanan Helpman, The Mystery of Economic Growth. Daniel H. Rosen, Scott Rozelle and Jikun Huang, Roots of Competitiveness: China's Evolving Agriculture Interests James...

Books reviewed in this article: Warwick J. McKibbin and Peter J. Wilcoxen - Climate Change after Kyoto: Blueprint for a Realistic Approach Ludger Woessmann - Schooling and the Quality of Human Capital Mordechai E. Kreinin and Michael G. Plummer - Economic Integration and Development: Has...

It is shown that convergence in inequality has been significantly slower amongst developing countries.

Recent contributions to the empirical growth literature show no tendency to convergence in specification, as researchers seek to identify new variables that can account for significant regional effects in earlier work. We conduct non-nested tests between the models of Barro (1997), Easterly and...

It is shown that convergence in inequality has been significantly slower amongst developing countries.

This paper analyzes trade in an asymmetric 2×2×2 world, where the two countries, labelled America and Europe, differ in their attitudes towards wage inequality. In both America and Europe, fair wage considerations compress differentials between the wages for skilled and unskilled workers,...