The 2010 Report continues the tradition of pushing the frontiers of development thinking. For the first time since 1990, the Report looks back rigorously at the past several decades and identifies often surprising trends and patterns with important lessons for the future. These varied pathways...

The aim of this paper is to measure the returns to migration using non-experimental data taking both observed and unobserved characteristics into account. A significant challenge related to migration research and the issues of unobserved heterogeneity is that the standard 2stage least squares...

Eradicating poverty everywhere is more than a moral imperative - it is a practical possibility. That is the most important message of the Human Development Report 1997. The world has the resources and the know-how to create a poverty-free world in less than a generation. The Report focuses not...

Este artigo pretende oferecer uma síntese do quadro político e institucional do setor energético brasileiro, com ênfase especial ao papel exercido pelas fontes de energia alternativas. Ele está dividido em quatro partes. A primeira apresenta um panorama das energias renováveis no Brasil,...

O declínio organizacional é um tema importante e pouco estudado. No limite o declínio leva à falência das empresas. Seu estudo é importante para a melhor compreensão por parte dos executivos dos fatores que podem colocar suas organizações em risco. O estudo do declínio, entretanto, é...

Some scholars? imprint an academic discipline by their contribution to the manner in which we think and research, namely by putting forward novel concepts and insights. In this paper we examine the impact of Sumantra Ghoshal?s work on the study of subsidiaries and multinational enterprises and...