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David Malpass, President of the World Bank Group, commemorated the 75th anniversary of the 1944 conference held in … Bretton Woods, New Hampshire which led to the creation of the World Bank. He spoke about key historical events and development …
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World Bank Group President David Malpass spoke of the steps the Group is taking to provide unprecedented financing to … credit on May 1, 2020. He highlighted about how the IMF Managing Director and World Bank championed the debt initiative, and …
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James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank Group, discussed the Bank's focus on the social sector. Since the … World War II were met, the more recent and continuing focus has been on development and on the issues of poverty and the …
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Using a panel of 80 developing and developed countries for the period 1990-2015, this studyanalyses the relationship between exchange rate volatility and foreign direct investment (FDI)inflows. The results reveal a negative relationship between de facto exchange rate volatility andFDI. Reducing...
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This paper analyzes how the exchange rate elasticity of exports has changed over time and across countries and sectors, and how the formation of global value chains has affected this relationship. The analysis uses a panel framework covering 46 countries over the period 1996-2012, and first...
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, the U.S. real interest rate and real exchange rate, U.S. GDP growth, and world commodity prices) that explain much of the …
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contributions to global trade growth have come from East Asian countries in the developing world and the Euro area in the developed … world. Merchandise trade, which in recent years has been less resilient than services trade, picked up, growing by 4 …
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Domestic Violence (DV) is a universal phenomenon that affects millions of women of all social strata worldwide. It is the most pervasive, common, under-recognized, underestimated and under-reported type of violence against women. It reflects discriminatory social norms, stereotypes, impunity and...
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