An introduction to an edited volume of analytic growth narratives.

Why is trade in labor services treated so differently than trade in goods or capital?

A paper prepared for the UNDP.

Revised February 2001. The answer depends on the counterfactual, but if the relevant alternative was an IMF-style program, they worked very well indeed.

October 21, 2000 version

A paper for a conference in Malaysia.

Ask not what it does for your exports, but what it does for the quality of your institutions.

Newly revised, May 2000. A re-examination of the relationship between trade policy and economic growth and a critical review of the literature. Published in Macroeconomics Annual 2000, eds. Ben Bernanke and Kenneth S. Rogoff, MIT Press for NBER, Cambridge, MA, 2001.

A reiteration and integration of various themes from some of my previous papers.

October 1999. Paper prepared for an IMF conference on Second Generation Reforms.  Revised version published in Studies in Comparative International Development, Fall 2000.

December 1999. A short paper for the American Economic Association meetings in Boston, January 7-9, 2000.

Revised, October 1999. A formal model on why international tax coordination may be needed to get labor to go along with capital mobility.

(September 1999 version). This is actually the text of a letter sent to the authors (minus some personal remarks), which I have decided to post because I am frequently asked about this paper.

Revised September 1999. Some wild speculation on the future of the world economy. Published in Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2000.

August 1999. Revised version in CEPAL Review.

The consequences (and causes) thereof.

April 1999 (Edited June 1999). How far will the new international financial architecture go, and what will it cost the developing countries?

The title says it all. Revised and expanded version of NBER Working Paper No. 6364.