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In less than a decade after the end of the apartheid, South Africa has intensified its economic ties with its African neighbours to become one of the top-ten investors and trading partners of many African countries, displacing companies from the former colonial powers in Europe. Among such South...
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This paper analyses the impact of natural disasters in the Caribbean. The economic impact of natural disasters in the region has been significant, resulting in widespread destruction of the productive economy. This paper presents the main macroeconomic impact of disasters, e.g., a deteriorating...
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on export diversification and specialization, by investigating the extent of export diversification and specialization in …) model to investigate the economy-wide impacts of greater export diversification versus greater export specialization. We … causality test suggests that export diversification induces changes in GDP per capita. Our CGE simulations find that export …
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This paper uses a unique panel dataset on firm-level corruption. It contains quantitative information on bribe payments by a sample of formal and informal Vietnamese firms. We show that bribe incidence is highly associated with firm-level differences in (i) visibility, (ii) sunk costs, (iii)...
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China has undergone remarkable economic growth spearheaded by industrialization. Chinese industry demands a wide … domestic supply for several materials. Thus, China needs to import raw materials. In order to satisfy its needs, China has …
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This Policy Brief focuses on links betweenthe developing countries of Brazil, India,China and South Africa and the … global economy, with a special emphasis on the implications of China.s spectacular growthon developing economies and the rest …
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This paper analyses political elites, economic elites, hybrid elite households and non-elite households in rural China … in rural China would decrease only marginally if such disparities were to vanish. In contrast the spatial dimension is … much more important for income inequality and for wealth inequality in rural China. …
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Land efficiency in urban China is examined, using Tianjin as a case study, from the perspective of agricultural land … greater variation in urban densities (leveraging already high densities in urban China – one-third the global median), less …
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