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Revealed Comparative Advantage of Pakistan's Agricultural Exports

World Bank - 2013

Pakistan is widely believed to be underperforming as far as its agricultural export potential is concerned. However … first necessary step in the analysis of Pakistan's comparative advantage in agricultural export markets. However, little or … quantifying the degree of comparative advantage of Pakistan agricultural export products in major overseas markets. This …

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Lebanon Agriculture Sector Note : Aligning Public Expenditures with Comparative Advantage

World Bank - 2013

Agriculture is a small but stable part of the Lebanese economy. Approximately 20 to 25 percent of Lebanon's active population is involved in the sector in one way or another. This note is a synthesis of previous work written on agriculture development in Lebanon and related public expenditures...

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Kazakhstan : Taking Advantage of Trade and Openness for Development

World Bank - 2012

efforts, measures to improve access to inputs and export markets by reducing non-tariff barriers and through trade …

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Comparative advantage, demand for external finance, and financial development

Đỗ-Quý-Toàn - 2006

export goods which do not rely on external finance. The authors demonstrate this effect empirically using data on financial … development and export patterns in a panel of 96 countries over the period 1970-99. Using trade data, they construct a summary …

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Determinants of economic growth : a Bayesian panel data approach

Moral-Benito, Enrique - 2009

"Model uncertainty hampers consensus on the key determinants of economic growth. Some recent cross-country, cross-sectional analyses have employed Bayesian Model Averaging to address the issue of model uncertainty. This paper extends that approach to panel data models with country-specific fixed...

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Natural disasters and human capital accumulation

Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús - 2009

"The author assesses empirically the relationship between natural disaster risk and investment in education. Although the results in the empirical literature tend to be inconclusive, using model averaging methods in the framework of cross-country and panel regressions, this paper finds an...

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Estimates of government net capital stocks for 26 developing countries, 1970-2002

Hurlin, Christophe - 2006

"The authors provide various estimates of the government net capital stocks for a panel of 26 developing countries over the period 1970-2001. Two kinds of internationally comparable series of public capital stocks are presented. The first estimates are based on the standard perpetual inventory...

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Cross-country empirical studies of systemic bank distress : a survey

Demirguç-Kunt, Asli - 2005

"A rapidly growing empirical literature is studying the causes and consequences of bank fragility in contemporary economies. The authors reviews the two basic methodologies adopted in cross-country empirical studies-the signals approach and the multivariate probability model-and their...

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The relative richness of the poor? : Natural resources, human capital, and economic growth

Bravo Ortega, Claudio - 2005

"Are natural resources a blessing or a curse? Bravo-Ortega and De Gregorio present a model in which natural resources have a positive effect on the level of income and a negative effect on its growth rate. The positive and permanent effect on income implies a welfare gain. There is a growth...

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Why should we care about child labor? The education, labor market, and health consequences of child labor

Dehejia, Rajeev H. - 2005

"Although there is extensive literature on the determinants of child labor and many initiatives aimed at combating it, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labor on socioeconomic outcomes such as education, wages, and health. Beegle, Dehejia, and Gatti evaluate the causal...

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