intermediate services against market entry of new suppliers. By scanning the empirical literature on effective rates of protection … important intermediate services like banking and telecom and thus these industries can be instrumental to help downstream … services will further rise due to various EU-policy rooted factors. As a result, protection rates of services in individual EU …

combined with economic reasoning (on the non storability of services, the role of air transports and on the complementarity … between services). As to the indirect effects, I assume that the downturn in sentiment will be severe but short-lived. Under …

We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of … international sourcing of materials depends on a firm's productivity and the availability of local services. These predictions are … materials to sales. In addition, we find evidence that services grease the wheels of international commerce: A greater …

We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of … international sourcing of materials depends on a firm's productivity and the availability of local services. These predictions are … materials to sales. In addition, we find evidence that services grease the wheels of international commerce: A greater …

institutions does not hold. SSA countries appear to face very specific development problems. Given their geographic and economic …

public goods and may promote economic development. We draw on the literatures on migrant remittances and on philanthropy in …

sophisticated financial products. We survey middle class people living in Bangkok and find that higher financial literacy leads to … an increased probability of individuals demanding the sophisticated financial products that are available, and more …: it increases the welfare of this group and also contributes to financial development, which is a driver of growth …

Corruption has fierce impacts on economic and societal development and is subject to a vast range of institutional … a massive trans-border threat while creating high obstacles to sustainable and prospective development, ultimately …

on agricultural production, household incomes and food security. Global climate change is mainly transmitted through … agricultural GDP while decreasing real household incomes and food security. Rural nonfarm households are hit hardest as they tend …