March Madness or Spring Awakening?
APEC and New Beginnings in TradeThe first Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM I) of Asia-Pacific Economics Cooperation (APEC) concluded earlier this month in Washington D.C. The APEC 2011 agenda now swings...
View ArticleService with a smile: A new growth engine for poor countries
This post was originally published in Voxeu.org. Services have long been the main source of growth in rich countries. We argue that services are now the main source of growth in poor countries as well....
View ArticleServices, Inequality, and the Dutch Disease
A new World Bank policy research working paper by Bill Battaile, Richard Chisik, and Harun Onder shows how Dutch disease effects may arise solely from a shift in demand following a natural resource...
View ArticleHow to make services work for the poor?
This question is particularly relevant in the context of traditional public agricultural extension services. Expensive and burdened by high rates of under-staffing and low levels of accountability,...
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