This book presents a state-of-the-art evaluation of the benefits and costs of behind-the-border services reform. It introduces new, second-generation methods for quantifying regulatory barriers and applies those methods to a wide range of services sectors ¡ª financial, infrastructure and...

This paper focuses on how political regimes affect financial developments in Africa and the role of dominant religion, income levels and colonial legacies in this regard. The findings indicate that authoritarian regimes have a higher propensity to effect policies that favour the development of...

Israel's ongoing crisis - or 'judicial coup' in popular parlance - has elicited two opposite responses. The first comes from global rating agencies, economists and investment strategists who see Israel's country risk rising. The opposite reaction, by Prime Minister Netanyahu and his acolytes,...

A terrorist... to be or not to be? In point of fact, being designated a 'terrorist' depends on the political climate. If one commits acts of violence in the name of some statehood, one is the law; but if one acts violently, in the name of an ideal but against some statehood, one is a terrorist....

The paper offers a new theoretical framework for linking inflation and accumulation, with the Israeli experience as a case study. The focal point is the process of differential accumulation by the largest core firms. The theory of differential accumulation suggests that the relative power of...