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Trade liberalization, economic activity, and political violence in the Global South : evidence from PTAs
Amodio, Francesco; Baccini, Leonardo; Chiovelli, Giorgio; … - 2023
This paper investigates the impact of agricultural trade liberalization on economic activity and political violence in emerging countries. We use data on all Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) signed between 25 low- and middle-income countries and their high-income trade partners between 1995...
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Expanding export variety : the role of institutional reforms in developing countries
Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis Tao - 2013
expand their product varieties in export. Our model demonstrates that relaxing foreign ownership controls and improving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128870
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Short and long-run labor market effects of developing country exports : evidence from Bangladesh
Robertson, Raymond; Kokas, Deeksha; Cardozo, Diego; … - 2020
This paper studies how a positive export shock - the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of … exogenous to Bangladesh, we instrument export demand with OECD imports to ensure identification. We compare estimates of the …-run, general-equilibrium neoclassical trade theory. As in other studies, we find that the export shock was localized both in terms …
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Exports and jobs for inclusive growth in Cambodia
Kokas, Deeksha; Roche Rodriguez, Jaime Alfonso; López … - 2024
Cambodia's rapid economic growth in the past few decades has coincided with trade liberalization and structural transformation. This growth has been extensively associated with more employment, higher wages, shared prosperity, and poverty reduction. By combining two complementary approaches, the...
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Short-term impacts of targeted cash grants and business development services: experimental evidence from entrepreneurs in Burkina Faso
Grimm, Michael; Soubeiga, Sidiki; Weber, Michael - 2021
Most support programs targeted at small firms in low- and middle-income countries fail to generate transformative effects at a large scale due to bad targeting, too little flexibility, and the limited size of the support, among others. This paper assesses the short-term effects of a randomized...
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The agricultural origins of time preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2014
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
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Pathways from school to work in the developing world
Manacorda, Marco; Rosati, Furio Camillo; Ranzani, Marco; … - 2015
This paper uses micro data from the ILO-STWT surveys to provide novel evidence on the duration, end point and determinants of the transition from school to work in a sample of 23 low and middle-income countries around the world. The negative effects of low levels of human capital and high levels...
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A survey of the economics of Fair Trade
Dammert, Ana C.; Mohan, Sarah - 2014
Fair Trade has spread in developing countries as an initiative aimed at lifting poor smallholder farmers out of poverty by providing them with premium prices, availability of credit, and improved community development and social goods. Fair Trade is also viewed as a niche market for high value...
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The return of the prodigy son : do return migrants make better leaders?
Mercier, Marion - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of political leaders' migration experience on the quality of their leadership. We build up an original database on the personal background of 932 politicians who were at the head of the executive power in a developing country over the 1960-2004 period. We put...
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Why pay NGOs to involve the community?
Burger, Ronelle; Dasgupta, Indraneel; Owens, Trudy - 2014
We examine the case for donors providing financial incentives to NGOs to increase community participation. We show that, when such incentives are provided, there need not exist any meaningful relationship between beneficiary welfare and the extent of community participation implemented by an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010259538