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economy, and presents an overview of economic benefits of deregulation, labor market liberalization, and enterprise reform …
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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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The literature on the benefits and costs of financial globalization for developing countries has exploded in recent … macroeconomic effects of financial globalization, in terms of both growth and volatility. Overall, our critical reading of the … financial globalization, but with many nuances. On the other hand, there is little systematic evidence to support widely cited …
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context of globalization-a term typically used to describe the phenomenon of growing international trade and financial …
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This Working Paper brings together three papers prepared as background for discussions at the Second High-Level Conference on Asian Integration cohosted by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the IMF on May 25, 2006. The first documents recent trends in the intraregional flow of goods and...
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countries, the South, driven by the process of globalization?the phenomenon of rising international trade and financial flows … economic activity on the Emerging South has declined during the globalization period (1986-2005). In contrast, the growth …
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in affecting developing countries’ experiences with financial globalization. …
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Standard theoretical arguments tell us that countries with relatively little capital benefit from financial integration as foreign capital flows in and speeds up the process of income convergence. We show in a calibrated neoclassical model that conventionally measured welfare gains from this...
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Globalization has become the focus for a wide range of protests against various features of the world economy. This … paper aims to give a concise summary of the economic dimensions of globalization, while leaving to one side other aspects …—such as cultural, environmental, or political ones—that are beyond the scope of the IMF. Periods of increased globalization …
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This paper documents stylized facts on the process of structural transformation around the world and empirically analyzes its determinants using data on real value added by sector of economic activity (agriculture, manufacturing and services) for a panel of 168 countries over the period...
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