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This report describes the complex and changing interrelationship between trade, domestic investment and foreign direct … investment (FDI) and provides examples of good practices in trade policymaking that create a healthy investment climate in … developing countries. A two-by-two taxonomy is used to analyse the impact of policies affecting imports and exports in both host …
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large-scale refugee situations. Refugee flows are complex, often protracted, and, require humanitarian, development and …
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issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been … discussed which hint at the possibility that progress in development of less developed regions might lead to more migration …
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more market-oriented economic policy on trade and finance. The impact of a larger middle class appears to be more robust …
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Using cross-country and Peruvian data, I show that victims of misfortune, particularly crime victims, are much more likely than non-victims to bribe public officials. Misfortune increases victims’ demand for public services, raising bribery indirectly, and also increases victims’ propensity...
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that periods of high unemployment and joblessness could hinder the development of democracy or threaten its existence. …
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Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
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We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural...
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reliable than those at the individual level. Second, development is a qualitative process involving take-off points and … stages and dimensions of the development process. …
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Transition finance offers a flexible approach for development partners to respond to the changing financial needs of … development finance to these countries. Building on the analytical results from the first two sections, the last section on …
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