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trade finance and removing barriers to overland trade. Although there is little that governments outside of China, Europe …
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of 'globalization.' Ravallion views the issue through both 'macro' and 'micro' empirical lenses. The macro lens uses … modeling of the impacts of specific trade reforms. The author presents case studies for China and Morocco. Both the macro and … micro approaches cast doubt on some wide generalizations from both sides of the globalization debate. Additionally the micro …
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associated with an increased demand for skilled labor, the opposite is true in China. This paper 'a product of the Growth and … Investment Team, Development Research Group' is part of a larger effort in the group to study the links between globalization and …
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"In this paper, the authors describe South Africa's value added tax (VAT), showing that (1) the VAT is mildly regressive, and (2) it is an effective source of government revenue, compared with other tax instruments in South Africa. They evaluate the VAT in the context of other distortions in the...
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"Past research into the determinants of international trade highlighted the importance of the basic spatial gravity model augmented by additional variables representing sources of friction. Studies modeled many sources of friction using various proxies, including indices based on expert judgment...
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Transport and logistics services in Myanmar have been substantially hit by the impacts of the February 2021 coup and the surge in Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases. Logistics companies have been affected by rising fuel prices, border closures, and a shortage of shipping containers. While...
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Plastics have been a development driver for decades but have turned into a development problem due to their omnipresence in the environment. Marine litter and plastic pollution have attracted much attention and commitments from governments and the private sector alike in the past few years....
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