Presenting the proceedings of the May 2003 World Bank Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), the volume imparts new research findings and discussions on key policy issues related to poverty...
International approaches to global climate change; by Richard N. Cooper. Comments on Cooper; by Kenneth J. Arrow. Understanding how contagion spreads; by Rudiger Dornbusch, Yung Chul Park, and Stijn Claessens...
Any index of smallness is somewhat arbitrary, but common practice has been to use population and income criteria. Experience suggests that smallness is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for...
This paper points out that the process governing variations in daily energy balances in human beings is not yet fully understood and a satisfactory theoretical framework for it is yet to emerge. Nevertheless...
The interaction between international trade and development is discussed as it pertains to the optimal trade and development strategy for a postwar LDC and to how that country's trade opportunities ought...