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Stages of Development of Payment Systems : Leapfrogging Across Countries and Mena's Place in the World

Gevaudan, Clement - 2020

This paper studies the relationship between the level of economic development and the incidence of three forms of payments across countries, namely the incidence of bank accounts, digital payments, and mobile money accounts among the adult populations across countries. It presents simple...

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Anatomy and Impact of Export Promotion Agencies

Cruz, Marcio - 2018

Recent literature has shown evidence of positive contributions of export promotion agencies around the world in raising … their products. This paper describes the characteristics of export promotion agencies around the world, using a novel … database from the World Bank, in collaboration with the International Trade Center in Geneva, covering 2005-10. In addition, it …

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Inequality and Economic Growth : The Role of Initial Income

Brueckner, Markus - 2018

-income countries, inequality has a significant negative effect on transitional growth. For the median country in the world that in 2015 …

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Effects of Income Inequality on Aggregate Output

Brueckner, Markus - 2017

This paper estimates the effect of income inequality on real gross domestic product per capita using a panel of 104 countries during the period 1970?2010. The empirical analysis addresses endogeneity issues by using instrumental variables estimation and controlling for country and time fixed...

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Formulas for Failure? Were the Doha Tariff Formulas Too Ambitious for Success?

Laborde, David - 2017

This paper views tariff-cutting formulas as a potential solution to the free-rider problem that arises when market opening is negotiated bilaterally and extended on a most-favored-nation basis. The negotiators in the Doha Agenda chose formulas that are ideal from an economic efficiency viewpoint...

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Structural Reforms and Labor Market Outcomes : International Panel Data Evidence

Hollweg, Claire H. - 2017

collected from a variety of sources, including the World Bank World Development Indicators, the International Monetary Fund …

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Monitoring Export Vulnerability to Changes in Growth Rates of Major Global Markets

Hollweg, Claire H. - 2017

commodities and differentiated products. This methodology is applied to six developing countries, one from each World Bank region …

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Agricultural Trade : What Matters in the Doha Round?

Laborde, David - 2017

This survey concludes that including agriculture in the Doha Agenda negotiations was important both economically and politically, although the political resistance to reform is particularly strong in this sector. While agriculture accounts for less than 10 percent of merchandise trade, high and...

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Reducing Distortions in International Commodity Markets : An Agenda for Multilateral Cooperation

Hoekman, Bernard - 2017

as a result affect world prices for the specific products concerned. Market failures and market structures (market power …

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International Trade and Inclusive Growth : A Primer for Busy Policy Analysts

Lederman, Daniel - 2017

This note provides two analytical frameworks for understanding the role of trade in promoting inclusive growth in developing economies. A working definition of inclusive growth focuses on long-term, sustained growth associated with productivity growth and employment opportunities for broad...

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