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Remittances and the brain drain : skilled migrants do remit less!
Niimi, Yoko (contributor); Özden, Çağlar (contributor);  … - 2008
It has been argued that the adverse impact of skilled versus unskilled labor migration can be mitigated or even offset by the fact that skilled migrants remit more than unskilled ones. This paper contributes to the much debated and so far unresolved related issue of whether remittances actually...
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Causes of high food prices
Timmer, Charles Peter (contributor) - 2008
C. Peter Timmer writes about the causes of high food prices, focusing on staple grains - rice in particular - and edible oils. He shows that although food prices have come down from the spikes of early 2008, they are likely to remain higher than they were in early 2007 for years to come. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003767984
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Impact of food safety standards on processed food exports from developing countries
Jongwanich, Juthathip - 2009
This paper examines the impact of food safety standards on processed food exports in developing countries. An intercountry cross-sectional econometric analysis of processed food exports in developing countries was undertaken. The Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standard (SPS) is incorporated into the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832217
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A cross-country analysis of achievements in inequities in economic growth and standards of living
Son, Hyun H. - 2009
This paper compares achievements and inequities in standards of living across countries. Achievement is measured by an index, which is constructed to reflect greater achievement for an increase in the standard of living of a country that is already at a high level compared to that of another...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832267
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US international trade and the global economic crisis
James, William E. - 2009
World trade volume is in retreat for the first time in more than two decades and the contraction is on a scale not seen … trade with the rest of the world. Moreover, US imports that avail of preferential tariff treatment are also contracting more … to strangle world trade. The failure of bilateral free trade agreements to act as a shock absorber suggests that a new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003913740
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What makes developing Asia resilient in a financial globalized world?
Itō, Hiro; Juthathip Jongwanich; Terada Hagiwara, Akiko - 2009
The pullbacks of capital inflows to developing Asia following the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008 have brought renewed attention to the role and benefits of financial globalization. A number of notable distinctions between the current global crisis and the Asian financial crisis...
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Who are the middle class and what values do they hold? : evidence from the world values survey
Amoranto, Glenita; Chun, Natalie; Deolalikar, Anil B. - 2010
"This paper examines key determinants of class status and the relationship between class status and values. We show that class status is largely determined by factors related to higher incomes, but is highly divergent among regions. Higher class status is significantly correlated with values...
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Trade and income in Asia : panel data evidence from instrumental variable regression
Ferrarini, Benno - 2010
of developing Asia, compared to the world average. The findings from panel instrumental variable regression confirm … international trade to have caused income to rise on average across the world's trading nations, but particularly so for countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826910
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Impact of labor market institutions on unemployment : results from a global panel
Vandenberg, Paul - 2010
Policies and programs designed to protect workers may, paradoxically, have a negative impact on labor as a whole by increasing unemployment. A key question is which policies have this effect. Using a 3-year panel of 90 countries, the study finds that the unemployment rate is affected by the...
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Productivity growth across the world, 1991 - 2003
Kim, Sangho; Park, Donghyun; Park, Jong-Ho - 2010
world productivity growth was led by fast-growing newly emerging economies, whereas most developed countries experienced a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008658803