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The relative importance of global agricultural subsidies and market access
Anderson, Kym - 2006
"The claim by global trade modelers that the potential contribution to global economic welfare of removing agricultural subsidies is less than one-tenth of that from removing agricultural tariffs puzzles many observers. To help explain that result, the authors first compare the OECD and...
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Aggregate economic shocks, child schooling and child health
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2008
"Do aggregate economic shocks, such as those caused by macroeconomic crises or droughts, reduce child human capital? The answer to this question has important implications for public policy. If shocks reduce investments in children, they may transmit poverty from one generation to the next. This...
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Does openness imply greater exposure ?
Calderán, César - 2005
"External exposure can be measured by the sensitivity of first and second moments of economic growth to openness and foreign shocks. This paper provides an empirical evaluation of external exposure using panel data methods for a worldwide sample of countries. Controlling for domestic conditions,...
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Globalization and innovation in emerging markets
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2009
the impact of increased competition and foreign direct investment on domestic firms' efforts to innovate (raise their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394102
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Effects of privatization and ownership in transition economies
Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2009
"The paper evaluates the effects of privatization in the post-communist economies and China. In post-communist economies privatization to foreign owners results in a rapid improvement in performance of firms, while performance effects of privatization to domestic owners are less impressive and...
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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes : cross-country and time-series evidence from the business environment and enterprise performance surveys in transition economies
Mitra, Pradeep - 2009
"This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394113
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Firms' productive performance and the investment climate in developing economies : an application to MENA manufacturing
Kinda, Tidiane - 2009
"Drawing on the World Bank Investment Climate Assessment surveys, this paper investigates the relationship between firm …-level technical efficiency and the investment climate for 22 developing economies and eight manufacturing industries. The authors … the investment climate matters for firms' productive performance. This is true (depending on the industry) for the quality …
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Innovative firms or innovative owners? : determinants of innovation in micro, small, and medium enterprises
De Mel, Suresh J. - 2009
"Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation...
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Explaining enterprise performance in developing countries with business climate survey data
Dethier, Jean-Jacques - 2008
drives growth by encouraging investment and higher productivity. Various infrastructure, finance, security, competition and … framework that underpins the investment climate literature. Section 2 describes the available datasets and surveys the key …
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Does gender matter for firm performance? : evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Sabarwal, Shwetlena - 2008
"Using 2005 firm level data for 26 countries in Eastern and Central Europe, this paper estimates performance gaps between male and female-owned businesses, while controlling for location by industry and country. The findings show that female entrepreneurs have a significantly smaller scale of...
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