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Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa: From the Margins to the Centre

A review of "Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa: From the Margins to the Centre."

A Numbers Argument for Renewing Trade Adjustment Assistance

Sovereign Debt Relief and its Aftermath

This paper studies sovereign debt relief in a long-term perspective.

Moving to the Adjacent Possible: Discovering Paths for Export Diversification in Rwanda

How can Rwanda, which currently has one of the lowest levels of income and exports per capita in the world, grow and diversify its economy in presence of significant constraints?

The World Trade Organization at Twenty

is almost always easier to see more clearly in retrospect. Some develop- ments, viewed from the vantage point of history, look more inevitable than they seemed when they began.

New and Improved Trade Agreements?

Trade is high on the agenda in the United States, Europe, and much of Asia this year.

China Is Not Yet Number One

Many claim that China will soon overtake the US. I argue that this claim is based on a misuse of statistics.

Pooling Risk Among Countries

Suppose that international sharing risk—worldwide or with large numbers of countries—were costly. How much risk-sharing could be gained in small sets (or “pools”) of countries?

Human Rights and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises: Normative Innovations and Implementation Challenges

In the 1990s—as global markets widened and deepened significantly due to trade liberalization, privatization, deregulation, offshore production, and growing influential financial centers—the impact of

How to Cope with Volatile Commodity Export Prices: Four Proposals