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countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. A lengthy literature and recent data … development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …
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Despite the widespread occurrence of humanitarian emergencies such as epidemics, earthquakes, droughts, floods and violent conflict and despite the significant financial resources devoted to humanitarian assistance, systematic learning from such interventions using rigorous theory-based impact...
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played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …
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Globalization is not only about the rise of trade, FDI, and migration. It is also about the changing linkages among … liberalization fostered not only trade but also inward investment, confirming that trade and FDI toward developing countries have …, trade policies and the stock of FDI have a positive impact on the incentives to invest in education. This set of findings …
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In this paper an ex-post measurable definition of globalization has been used, namely increasing trade openness and FDI … employment creation nor the decrease in within-country inequality are automatically assured by increasing trade and FDI. The …, giving raise to concentration and marginalisation phenomena; 2) increasing trade and FDI do not emerge as the main culprits …
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relationship between trade, FDI and labor markets. We do so under the following (not mutually exclusive) headings: (1) slicing … empirical work covering the labor market effects of trade and FDI. Finally, we identify and summarize the existing research gaps …
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This paper models the short and medium-run impact of aid on migration, considering alternatively the effect of … development program, Progresa, are used to estimate the effect of the potential grant size on migration. The empirical analysis is …
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The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of … aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter …
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International donors usually have particular goals they want to achieve with their foreign aid, for example, poverty … alleviation. In the international aid story lobbying by potential recipient groups attempting to capture the donor’s support play …
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To identify molecular mechanisms by which early life social conditions might influence adult risk of disease in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), we analyze changes in basal leukocyte gene expression profiles in 4-month-old animals reared under adverse social conditions. Compared to the basal...
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