Vos, R. http://repub.eur.nl/res/aut/22757/ List of Publications en http://repub.eur.nl/static-eur/img/logo.png RePub, Erasmus University Rotterdam http://repub.eur.nl Reaching the millennium development goal for child mortality : improving equity and efficiency in Ecuador's health budget (Research Paper) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/19169/ 2005-06-01T00:00:00Z Meeting the millennium development goal in education : a cost-effectiveness analysis for Ecuador (Research Paper) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/19162/ 2004-11-01T00:00:00Z Are export promotion and trade liberalization good for Latin America's poor? : a comparative macro-micro CGE analysis (Research Paper) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/19158/ 2004-08-01T00:00:00Z Bad luck or wrong policies? : external shocks, domestic adjustment, and the growth slowdown in Latin America and the Carribean (Research Paper) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/19156/ 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Development and the colour of money : should developing countries have their own currency? (Inaugural Lecture) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/30875/ 2000-12-07T00:00:00Z In just about a year from now you will have to replace your Dutch guilders for euros. You mayor may not have asked yourself the question: will this be good for me and for the economy? With the decline of its rate against the dollar you may have started to think that this euro business is not such a good idea after all. If you are concerned about this, let me disappoint you up front. I am not going to discuss with you the possible bright and dark spots of a declining euro/dollar rate. Something I will address though, is whether the introduction of the euro could be part of a global process towards fewer currencies. Why should some 185-odd countries all be printing their own money? We are moving towards a world with two soft drink companies, two major aeroplane manufacturers, three toothpaste producers and an increasing concentration of international banking and insurance companies. So why have all those different bank notes? Shouldn't we better move towards a world with only a few currency zones? And now that we are reducing numbers, why not have just have one single world currency, as recently proposed by 1999 Nobel Prize winner Robert Mundell (2000)? Such an idea might encounter serious political obstacles at the moment, but it could be overtaken by events. The Internet has adopted the dollar as its de facto trading currency. With the lilcely rapid expansion of Internet sales, maybe countries should start anticipating an evolution towards a single world currency? Would the world and, more in particular, developing countries gain from such a system? Economic reforms and rising inequality in Panama in the 1990s (Research Paper) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/19063/ 2000-06-01T00:00:00Z Economic liberalization, adjustment, distribution and poverty in Ecuador, 1988-98 (Research Paper) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/19056/ 2000-02-01T00:00:00Z Rising inequality during economic liberalisation and crisis : macro or micro causes in Ecuador's case? (Research Paper) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/19071/ 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Economic and social effects of "El Nino" in Ecuador, 1997-8 (Research Paper) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/19037/ 1999-07-01T00:00:00Z Poverty and dualistic growth in Paraguay (Research Paper) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/19004/ 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z medium-run stability of input-output relations in LDC economies : a test applied to Ecuador (Research Paper) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/19106/ 1989-03-01T00:00:00Z