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World Development Report 2005 : A Better Investment Climate for Everyone
The World Bank - 2004
Firms and entrepreneurs of all types - from microenterprises to multinationals - play a central role in growth and poverty reduction. Their investment decisions drive job creation, the availability and affordability of goods and services for consumers, and the tax revenues governments can draw...
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Global Economic Prospects, June 2015 : The Global Economy in Transition
2015 - Online-Ausg.
Global growth is expected to be 2.8 percent in 2015, but is expected to pick up to 3.2 percent in 2016-17. Growth in developing countries and some high-income countries is set to disappoint again this year. The prospect of rising borrowing costs will compound the challenges many developing...
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Development and Climate Change : A Strategic Framework for the World Bank Group
World Bank - 2008
global climate policy and neutrality of the supporting institutions is critical for such cooperation to succeed. Difficulties …
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Testing supply-side climate policies for the global steam coal market : can they curb coal consumption?
Mendelevitch, Roman - 2016
The achieved international consensus on the 1.5‐2°C target entails that most of current fossil fuel reserves must remain unburned. Currently, a majority of climate policies aiming at this goal are directed towards the demand side. In the absence of a global carbon regime these polices are...
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Terrorism and trade
Nitsch, Volker; Schumacher, Dieter - 2003
This paper examines the effect of terrorism and warfare on international trade. We investigate bilateral trade flows between more than 200 countries over the period from 1960 to 1993. Applying an augmented gravity model that includes several measures of terrorism and largescale violence, we find...
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Trade in developing East Asia : how it has changed and why it matters
Constantinescu, Cristina; Mattoo, Aaditya; Ruta, Michele - 2018
East Asia, for long the epitome of successful engagement in trade, faces serious challenges: technological change that may threaten the very model of labor intensive industrialization and a backlash against globalization that may reduce access to important markets. A detailed analysis of the...
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Creative Trade for Human Development
Kabanda, Patrick - 2016
In recent years, international trade in creative goods and services has been expanding. But this upward march is not lifting all boats. Although many developing countries are endowed with vast cultural wealth, they still lag behind. In addition, women are not faring well. Much needs to be done...
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Economic Growth : The Path to the Alleviation of Debt and Poverty
Clausen, A. W. - 1985
In this speech by A. W. Clausen, President of the World Bank and International Finance Corporation, he reconfirms the Bank's commitment to do all that it can to help the middle-income member countries with severe debt problems to regain sustained, noninflationary economic growth with social...
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External debt in post-conflict countries
Alvarez Plata, Patricia (contributor);  … - 2006
In the development literature, there exists no systematic study of external borrowing in post-conflict countries. We … exceptional debt relief based odious debt or on financial requirements. Debt relief for post-conflict reconstruction should …
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The Impact of Trade Openness on Institutions
Levchenko, Andrei A. - 2016
The impact of opening to trade on economic institutions is likely to be multifaceted and depend crucially on country … why international trade opening has the potential to transform institutions. What is needed to effect institutional change … distribution of political power as the determinant of how institutions react to trade opening. If "rent seekers" are in power when …
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