Contents of the report are as follows: Long-term economic development: challenges and prospects for the Arab countries by Mustapha K. Nabli. Reform complementarities and economic growth in the Middle East...
Recent evidence shows that the returns to labor and the skill premium both increase in developing countries after trade liberalization, despite the low skill content of their exports. The author explains...
The roundtable discussion on employment and development was designed to address some of the issues central to the forthcoming World Development Report 1995. The panel brought together four experts, each...
This paper discusses the problems that have confronted the labor markets of countries in the Middle East and North Africa region, drawing from the experience of Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Algeria. The...
The business cycle affects the incidence of poverty, as shown by evidence from Australia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Many of the poor in these countries are outside the labor markets...
Introduction: poverty and adjustment in the 1980s. Poverty in Eastern Europe in the years of crisis, 1978 to 1987: Poland, Hungary, and Yugoslavia. Macroeconomic adjustment and poverty in selected industrial...