International knowledge flows and economic performance - a review of the evidence; by Giorgio Barba Navaretti and David G. Tarr. Do trade patterns and technology flows affect productivity growth? By Wolfgang...
Poverty maps, providing information on the spatial distribution of living standards, are an important tool for policy making and economic research. Policymakers can use such maps to allocate transfers...
Poverty comparisons - an increasingly important starting-point for welfare analysis - are almost always based on household surveys. They therefore require that one be able to distinguish underlying differences...
Comparisons of poverty rates are only rarely based on identical underlying definitions of welfare. The authors examine the sensitivity of poverty rates calculated from alternative definitions of consumption...
This paper explores the links between environmental regulation and the creation and spread of pollution control technologies. Time patterns in environmental expenditure and patenting for different countries...