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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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About 2.5 billion adults, just over half the world’s adult population, lack bank accounts. If we are to realize the goal of extending banking and other financial services to this vast “unbanked” population, we need to consider not only such product innovations as microfinance and mobile...
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, and slowly increases at later stages of development. Third, the volatility of country-specific macroeconomic shocks falls … with the level of development. We argue that many theories linking volatility and development are not consistent with these … volatility into these four sources, quantify their contribution to aggregate volatility, and study how they relate to the stage …
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of political freedoms versus economic development. This paper takes a new approach to provide an answer by using micro …
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In this book Alice Amsden and Wan-wen Chu cover new ground by analyzing the phenomenon of high-end catch-up. They study how leading firms from the most advanced latecomer countries like Taiwan have increased their market share in mature high-tech industries and services. The profits that true...
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, and slowly increases at later stages of development. Third, the volatility of country- specific macroeconomic shocks falls … with the level of development. We argue that many theories linking volatility and development are not consistent with these … volatility into these four sources, quantify their contribution to aggregate volatility, and study how they relate to the stage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744831
commodities (agricultural or mineral products) while rich countries exported manufactured products. In Trade and Poverty, leading … trade, commodity specialization, and poverty. The world rapidly became global between the early nineteenth century and World … War I, and the global trade boom occurred simultaneously with rising economic divergence between industrial and …
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--not just resource-rich developing countries like Nigeria, but any country interested in reining in debt, managing volatility …, saving for the future, or building credibility with debtors and investors. This story of development economics in action …
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commodities (agricultural or mineral products) while rich countries exported manufactured products. In Trade and Poverty, leading … trade, commodity specialization, and poverty. The world rapidly became global between the early nineteenth century and World … War I, and the global trade boom occurred simultaneously with rising economic divergence between industrial and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640620
Vietnam.s development performance since the early 1990s has been one of the strongest in the world, following the … its domestic market only slowly while encouraging export growth. …
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