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Global Food Price Inflation and Policy Responses in Central Asia
Sumlinski, Mariusz A. - 2012
This paper examines the implications of elevated global food prices for inflation in select Central Asian economies - Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. The findings suggest that global food inflation has significant short-run effects that build over time. Inflation...
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Natural Disasters and Food Crises in Low-Income Countries : Macroeconomic Dimensions
Adedeji, Olumuyiwa - 2016
The exposure of low-income countries to natural disasters has a significant impact on food production and food security. This paper provides a framework for assessing a country's vulnerability to food crisis in the event of natural disasters. The paper finds that macroeconomic and structural...
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Assessing Protectionism and Subsidies in Agriculture : A Gravity Approach
Paiva, Claudio - 2014
support claims that protectionism and distortive subsidies to agriculture remain widespread in more developed nations, which …
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Structural Reforms and Productivity Growth in Emerging Market and Developing Economies
Dabla-Norris, Era - 2016
This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across countries at different stages of development, using a distance-to-frontier framework. It gauges whether particular policies and reforms matter more for increasing productivity...
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The Agricultural Exodus in the Philippines : Are Wage Differentials Driving the Process?
Cerutti, Eugenio; Li, Yiliang - 2022
Lagging labor reallocations outside agriculture amid sustained low agricultural productivity have been a key feature in … the Philippines over the past 15 years. An analysis of the labor adjustments in and out of agriculture shows that a … from agriculture, whilst the lack of post-primary education and the presence of agricultural clusters hinder such outflows …
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What Caused the Global Financial Crisis? Evidence on the Drivers of Financial Imbalances 1999-2007
Nier, Erlend W. - 2011
This paper investigates empirically the drivers of financial imbalances ahead of the global financial crisis. Three factors may have contributed to the build-up of financial imbalances: (i) rising global imbalances (capital flows), (ii) monetary policy that might have been too loose, (iii)...
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Foreign Banks : Trends, Impact and Financial Stability
Claessens, Stijn - 2012
This paper introduces a comprehensive database on bank ownership for 137 countries over 1995-2009, and reviews foreign bank behavior and impact. It documents substantial increases in foreign bank presence, with many more home and host countries. Current market shares of foreign banks average 20...
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Bank Behavior in Response to Basel III : A Cross-Country Analysis
Cosimano, Thomas F. - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of the new capital requirements introduced under the Basel III framework on bank lending rates and loan growth. Higher capital requirements, by raising banks' marginal cost of funding, lead to higher lending rates. The data presented in the paper suggest that...
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Fiscal Rules at a Glance : Country Details from a New Dataset
Budina, Nina T. - 2012
This paper provides country-specific information on fiscal rules in use in 81 countries from 1985 to end-September 2012. It serves as background material and update of the July 2012 Working Paper Fiscal Rules in Response to the Crisis-Toward the 'Next Generation' Rules: A New Dataset and is also...
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Tracking Global Demand for Advanced Economy Sovereign Debt
Arslanalp, Serkan - 2012
Recent events have shown that sovereigns, just like banks, can be subject to runs, highlighting the importance of the investor base for their liabilities. This paper proposes a methodology for compiling internationally comparable estimates of investor holdings of sovereign debt. Based on this...
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