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"This paper assesses the impact that a potential liberalization of sugar regimes in OECD countries could have on … household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to … prices. They then simultaneously estimate the impact that changes in domestic sugar prices have on regional wages and …
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prices that are two to three times the world market price. Without these preferences, sugar export revenues would decline …"Sugar exporters of the Caribbean depend on preferential sales of sugar to the European Union and United States at … significantly. These preferences are likely to erode in the next several years as the sugar programs of both the European Union and …
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This paper estimates country-specific costs and benefits of scaling up key nutrition investments in Nigeria. Building on the methodology established in the global report scaling up nutrition: what will it cost? Authors first estimate the costs and benefits of a nationwide scale up of ten...
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"Oil and mineral revenues raise national savings and hence facilitate investment, capital accumulation, and sustained growth; thus, there are benefits of owning large natural resources. There can be a significant spillover effect from the oil sector to the non-oil sector particularly if...
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-the-frontier innovations, inside-the-frontier innovations, and export booms. It extends the literature by increasing country coverage and the … performance. Furthermore, the search for export booms exhibits the least amount of sectoral concentration and path … modeling of these processes in theoretical work, particularly in the search for export booms, should be of a stochastic flavor …
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thick institutional architecture is in reality quite thin. This is due to a particular type of an export-oriented model …
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"Feenstra and Kee study the link between export product variety and country productivity based on data from 34 … industrial and developing countries, from 1982 to 1997. They measure export product variety by the share of U.S. imports on the … productivity gains. In addition, as suggested in the literature, export product variety depends on trade costs, such as tariffs …
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