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Investor-State Dispute Settlement : A Scoping Paper for the Investment Policy Community
Gaukrodger, David - 2012
Governments are facing an increasing number of arbitration claims by foreign investors relating to important public policies or seeking substantial damages, and many governments are taking a greater joint interest in how such cases are resolved in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). This...
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Inequality and Poverty in the United States: Public Policies for Inclusive Growth
Denk, Oliver; Hagemann, Robert P.; Lenain, Patrick; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
Income inequality and relative poverty in the United States are among the highest in the OECD and have substantially increased over the past decades. These developments have been associated with a number of other worrying statistics, including low intergenerational social mobility and weak real...
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The evolution of markets and the revolution of industry: a unified theory of growth
Desmet, Klaus; Parente, Stephen - In: Journal of Economic Growth 17 (2012) 3, pp. 205-234
the market reaches a critical size. The mechanism by which market size affects process innovation relies on two overlooked …
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The Evolution of Markets and the Revolution of Industry: A Quantitative Model of England's Development, 1300-2000
Desmet, Klaus; Parente, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
must then become larger to break even, which facilitates amortizing the fixed costs of innovation. We demonstrate our …
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Using foreign factors to enhance domestic export performance : a focus on Southeast Asia
Lopez Gonzalez, Javier - 2016
A country or firm's position in the value chain will largely depend on its comparative advantage, and therefore the mix of skills and resource endowments it brings to international production. For some, this might initially involve specialising in the labour intensive segments while others may...
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Helping SMEs internationalise through trade facilitation
Lopez Gonzalez, Javier; Sorescu, Silvia - 2019
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in generating economic activity and employment in developing and developed countries. However, partly due to remaining at-the-border trade costs, SMEs continue to be less represented in international trade – as direct exporters...
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Participation and benefits of SMEs in GVCs in Southeast Asia
Lopez Gonzalez, Javier; Munro, Laura; Gourdon, Julien; … - 2019
Although global value chain (GVCs) participation in Southeast Asia has been growing, little is known about whether the benefits from participation are accruing to larger firms or if small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), which make up the majority of companies and employ the bulk of the...
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The mining global value chain
Korinek, Jane - 2020
The mining sector accounts for a substantial share of exports and GDP in some countries, but rarely creates many direct jobs. This paper examines the mining sector using a value chain perspective, looking at both direct and indirect inputs and outputs. It finds that inputs from other sectors, in...
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Decentralisation in a Globalised World : Consequences and Opportunities
Boadway, Robin - 2018
problems of competitiveness, innovation and inequality brought on by globalisation. Adapting to these challenges involves …Globalisation accompanied by the growing importance of information technology and knowledge-based production pose … most important, large urban governments are best placed to provide the physical and social capital to support innovation …
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Chapter 20. Globalization and Inequality
Kanbur, Ravi - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 1845-1881). 2015
To what extent can increasing inequality be explained by globalization? And if there is a connection, what if anything can and should be done about it? This chapter begins with an overview of how conventional trade theory has fared in predicting changes in inequality and how it has needed to be...
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