DRAFT * The views expressed in this paper are personal and should not be attributed to the World Bank. 1 Introduction A major policy issue for many developing countries is to foster further integration into the world economy. This note discusses the role competition policy can play in the context of efforts to promote the restructuring the economy, focusing in particular on the relationship wit...

There is fortunately increasing international awareness of the problem of needless blindness from trachoma and enhanced international cooperation. This is exemplified by the World Health Organization Alliance for the Global Elimination of Blinding Trachoma by 2020 (GET 2020), the World Health Assembly resolution 51.11, 1998, and the inclusion of trachoma as a priority under the disease control ...

Because the chiral-odd structure function h 1 will be measured in the polarized Drell-Yan process, it is important to predict the behavior of h 1 before the measurement. In order to study the Q 2 evolution of h 1 , w e discuss one and two l o o p anomalous dimensions which are calculated in the Feynman gauge and minimal subtraction scheme.

More often than not, bad decisions are bad regardless of where and when they are made. Information sharing might thus be utilized to mitigate them. Here we show that sharing information about strategy choice between players residing on two different networks reinforces the evolution of cooperation. In evolutionary games, the strategy reflects the action of each individual that warrants the high...

The Bush administration’s military war on terrorism is a blunt, ineffective, and unjust response to the threat posed to innocent civilians by terrorism. Decentralized terrorist networks can only be effectively fought by international cooperation among police and intelligence agencies representing diverse nation-states, including ones with predominantly Islamic populations. The Bush administrati...

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This paper reviews Axelrod's work on the evolution of cooperation in terms of the generality of his findings. It is argued that while his results are to some degree sensitive to changes in the parametric assumptions he made, his and subsequent work provide a valuable general framework for the analysis of the conditions promoting cooperative play. In addition, this literature makes important met...