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Global Economic Prospects 2008: Technology Diffusion in the Developing World examines the state of technology in … of strong growth and a 15 year period of strong performance in much of the developing world, which has contributed to …
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International migration, the movement of people across international boundaries to improve economic opportunity, has enormous implications for growth and welfare in both origin and destination countries. An important benefit to developing countries is the receipt of remittances or transfers from...
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The proliferation of regional trade agreements is fundamentally altering the world trade landscape. The number of … can have adverse effects on excluded countries. Lowering of border barriers around the world is crucial to minimizing … these effects. The completion of the Doha Development Agenda by all countries in the World Trade Organization will reduce …
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The overview of the Global Economic Prospects (GEP) 2004 addresses the Doha Agenda and its effects or failures on global trade integration. The document contains commentary and analysis of international trade and its effects on developing countries and the poor populations of more developed...
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Strong cyclical dynamics, together with an easing of macroeconomic policies in the United States and elsewhere, have boosted large parts of the global economy, into the initial phase of a recovery in 2002. Nonetheless, the global recovery is fragile, because investment spending is insufficient...
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Realizing the promise of the new global initiatives to expand trade requires concerted effort to move development to center stage in trade policy formulation. This report is dedicated to that agenda. It begins with a review of global prospects and ways globalization links the fates of industrial...
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in the developing world. First, the crisis has increased poverty in the East Asian crisis countries, Brazil, and the … commodity prices that began in 1996. Chapter 4 examines how the most commodity-dependent economies in the world--the major oil …
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The themes of the 2006 Global Economic Prospects (GEP) are international remittances and migration, their economic consequences, and how policies can increase their role in reducing poverty. The GEP explores the gains and losses from international migration from the perspective of developing...
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The world economy is experiencing a very strong but uneven recovery, with many emerging market and developing economies … Global Economic Prospects. The Global Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report that examines global economic …
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Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report that examines global economic developments and prospects, with a …
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