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IMF Credit : how important are political factors? ; a robustness analysis

Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Berger, Helge; Haan, Jakob de - 2002

We test weather, in addition to economic conditions, IMF credit is influenced by political factors. On the basis of a panel model for 128 countries over the period 1972-1998, we find that dept service scaled to exports, international reserve holdings scaled to imports and economic growth, as...

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Cross-border mergers and acquisitions : on revealed comparative advantage and merger waves

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2005

By combining two large data sets (on international trade flows and on mergers and acquisitions M&As), we are able to test two implications of Neary's (2003, 2004a) recent theoretical work. Analyzing M&As in a General Oligopolistic Equilibrium (GOLE) model incorporating strategic interaction...

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Cross-border mergers & acquisitions : the facts as a guide for international economics

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2006

Using a detailed and large data set on cross-border merger and acquisitions we discuss the relationship between theory …

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Capital controls and exchange rate regimes : an empirical investigation

Berger, Helge - 2001

It is often argued that deregulation of international transactions and its effects on the "globalization" of financial markets is behind the decline in the attractiveness of fixed exchange rate regimes. We argue that, instead, much of the recently observed decrease in the level of capital...

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The Developing World is Poorer than We Thought, But No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty

Chen, Shaohua - 2017

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what quot;povertyquot; means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more … the early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world …

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A"Delphi Exercise"As a Tool in Amazon Rainforest Valuation

Strand, Jon - 2017

The Amazon rainforest, the world's largest and most biodiverse, represents a global public good of which 15 percent has …

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How Long Will it Take to Lift One Billion People Out of Poverty?

Ravallion, Martin - 2017

-case, "pessimistic," path to that goal would see the developing world outside China returning to its slower pace of growth and poverty … of the time series data and non-linear simulations of inequality-neutral growth for the developing world as a whole …

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Benchmarking Global Poverty Reduction

Ravallion, Martin - 2017

Against what standards should we judge the developing world's overall performance against poverty going forward? The … about a 1 percentage point higher growth rate for the gross domestic product of the developing world, as long as this did …

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More Relatively-Poor People in a Less Absolutely-Poor World

Chen, Shaohua - 2017

-relative poverty in the developing world has been falling since the 1990s, but more slowly for the relative measure. While the number …

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Market-Based Instruments for International Aviation and Shipping as a Source of Climate Finance

Keen, Michael - 2017

The international aviation and maritime sectors today enjoy relatively favorable tax treatment, as their fuels are not taxed and the sectors are not subject to any value-added tax or turnover tax. Nor are these fuel uses subject to any global measures to reduce their associated CO2 emissions,...

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