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Rising Income Inequality; Technology, o+L3904r Trade and Financial Globalization?

Papageorgiou, Chris; Lall, Subir; Jaumotte, Florence - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

We examine the relationship between trade and financial globalization and the rise in inequality in most countries in … recent decades. We find technological progress as having a greater impact than globalization on inequality. The limited … overall impact of globalization reflects two offsetting tendencies: whereas trade globalization is associated with a reduction …

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Efficiency-Adjusted Public Capital and Growth

Gupta, Sanjeev; Kangur, Alvar; Wane, Abdoul Aziz; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

This paper constructs an efficiency-adjusted public capital stock series and re-examines the public capital and growth relationship for 52 developing countries. The results show that public capital is a significant contributor to economic growth. Although the estimated coefficient for the income...

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Export Quality in Developing Countries

Henn, Christian; Papageorgiou, Chris; Spatafora, Nicola - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

This paper develops new, far more extensive estimates of export quality, covering 178 countries and hundreds of products over 1962–2010. Quality upgrading is particularly rapid during the early stages of development, with quality convergence largely completed as a country reaches upper...

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