Research
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
Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age
Why, despite massive public concern, is child trafficking on the rise?
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