This Sixth Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, one of the world's best-known series of conferences, aims at the presentation, and discussion of new knowledge on development. The theme...
Weathering the storm : the impact of the East Asian crisis on farm households in Indonesia and Thailand; by Fabrizio Bresciani, Gershon Feder, Daniel O. Gilligan, Hanan G. Jacoby, Tongroj Onchan, and Jaime...
The 1990s have witnessed several financial crises, of which the East Asia and Mexico tequila crises are perhaps the most well-known. What impact have these crises had on labor markets, household incomes...
Little evidence exists on the distribution across countries of toxic releases by manufacturing, or on how those patterns change through time. A number of studies have asked whether environmental controls...
Remittances by migrants, along with migration itself, are elements in a migrant-family's intertemporal contractual arrangement. This paper discusses the reasons why the migrant and his family voluntarily...
This paper maintains that it is unlikely that the growth in demand for labor in agriculture will substantially outpace population expansion. However, given the absolute size of employment in organized...