This paper argues that the contribution of trade preferences to economic development needs to be reappraised in light of the growth of globalised trade in manufactures. Trade preferences may be able to act as a catalyst for manufacturing exports, leading to rapid growth in exports and employment. To do so, preferences need to be designed to be consistent with international trade in fragmented ‘...

"A common hypothesis regarding the distribution of income is that it tends to become more unequal in the initial and middle stages of economic development, in part because of demographic changes. However, previous studies of the effect of demographic changes on income distribution are not based on the underlying micro determinants of the income components." In the present paper, "the micro de...

the main objective of this paper is to examine the impact of economic growth on coefficient of cardinal welfare in iran’s economy. hence, we employ the bayesian approach and the estimation of forward and backward density functions in order to measure the effect of economic growth spillovers on the social welfare. the paper has applied the gibbs sampling algorithm which is a rigorous tool for fo...

vi 1 Definitions and Dimensions of Livelihood Diversification 1 1.1 Definitions of diversification: multiplicity and/or change? 1 1.2 Livelihoods in the economy: basic dimensions of livelihood activities 1 2 Structural Transformation and the Non-farm Economy 4 2.1 Industrialisation and urbanisation 4 2.2 Regional growth theory and the rise and fall of the rural non-farm economy 5 2.3 Global str...

In this communication, some economic models given by functional mappings are addressed. These are models for random markets where agents trade by pairs and exchange their money in a random and conservative way. They display the exponential wealth distribution as asymptotic equilibrium, independently of the effectiveness of the transactions and of the limitation of the total wealth. The entropy ...

BACKGROUND The impacts of shifts in the age distribution of the working-age population have been studied in relation to the effect of the baby boom generation on the earnings of different cohorts in the U.S. However, this topic has received little attention in the context of the countries of Asia and Latin America, which are now experiencing substantial shifts in their age-education distributio...