Sharing similar colonial and post-independence civil war experiences, Mozambique and Angola’s development paths are often contrasted, with foreign aid-dependent Mozambique hailed a success compared to oil rentier Angola. This paper questions the so-called Mozambican miracle and contrasts it with Angola’s trajectory over the past two decades. Paying attention to the political trajectory of the r...

From a macroeconomic perspective, this paper asks whether or not output growth has been working in tandem with decent work targets over the past few decades. Though country experiences vary, growth has generally been much less of a driver toward decent work targets after the 2009 global downturn than previously. Using vulnerable employment data spanning 48 countries (1990-2010), this paper then...

Introduction: Ice grain size controls the geodynamic evolution of the ice I shells of large to mid-sized icy satellites. Grain size controls the viscosity of ice [1,2], and thus, the heat flux from the outer ice I shell by controlling the likelihood and efficiency of convection. In addition, the rheology of ice controls the depth to the brittle/ductile transition, which is a key control on endo...

Migrant networks—webs of social ties between individuals in origin and migrants in destination—are a key determinant of the magnitude and direction of migration flows, aswell asmigrants’ adaptation outcomes. The increasing emphasis onmigrant networks represents a new approach to migration research, which, until the late 1980s, had been dominated by economic or political explanations of migratio...

E C O N O M I C R E V I E W First Quarter 2005 For a variety of reasons, a heightened interest in understanding the remitting practices of immigrants has emerged. Banks have come to recognize the untapped potential for business in this burgeoning market. Economists have begun to note that remittance inflows into developing nations are, in many cases, catching up to and exceeding traditional sou...

Using data from China’s 1990 and 2000 censuses, this paper examines interprovincial migration by describing its spatial patterns and estimating models based on the gravity approach. Between the censuses, interprovincial migration increased considerably in size and became more unidirectional and concentrated. Modeling results highlight the role of regional economic disparity and migration stock,...

Global stability properties of dynamic two-country models can be easily studied in the case of international capital flows and simple capital market no-arbitrage conditions. With internationally constant relative productivities, long-run balanced growth path values for factor prices will hold on any equilibrium path unless one country experiences a period of no innovation. Innovation rates conv...

In this paper we present concepts for and experiences with a Situated Public Display system deployed in a university setting. We identify the rate with which information is updated as an important property to distinguish different kinds of information. With a first slideshow based prototype it was very difficult for users to predict whether information was updated since they last looked. To sol...

International migration is an important factor in social, cultural and political change in East Asian. The paper discusses both emigration and immigration countries, using the Philippines as an example for the former, and Japan and Malaysia for the latter. It is argued that population mobility is an important element of the cross-border flows and transnational networks that constitute globaliza...

What is the impact of the internet on state sovereignty, and in particular on states’ ability to control information flows across their borders? Whereas once the internet was presumed to be a borderless world of free-flowing information, today countries and corporations alike are carving it up in a bewildering array of filtered segments, often with major unintended consequences. The motivations...