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Financial Globalization and Inequality : Capital Flows as a Two-Edged Sword
Eichengreen, Barry; Csonto, Balazs; ElGanainy, Asmaa A; … - 2021
We review the debate on the association of financial globalization with inequality. We show that the within …-market specific - is important for facilitating wider sharing of the benefits of financial globalization …
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Gender Equality and Inclusive Growth
Fernández, Raquel; Luna, Francesco; Rambousek, Barbara - 2021
This paper considers various dimensions and sources of gender inequality and presents policies and best practices to address these. With women accounting for fifty percent of the global population, inclusive growth can only be achieved if it promotes gender equality. Despite recent progress,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238140
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Climate Action to Unlock the Inclusive Growth Story of the 21st Century
Bhattacharya, Amar; Ivanyna, Maksym; Oman, William; … - 2022
-challenged world, and the importance of infrastructure investment geared toward such systems changes. The key policies to enable the …
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Generational Aspects of Inclusive Growth
Baduel, Bénédicte; Ter-Martirosyan, Anna; Isakova, Asel - 2021
Sharing economic benefits equitably across all segments of society includes addressing the specific challenges of different generations. At present, youth and elderly are particularly vulnerable to poverty relative to adults in their middle years. Broad-based policies should aim to foster youth...
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Gender Inequality and Economic Growth : Evidence from Industry-Level Data
Bertay, Ata Can - 2020
We study whether higher gender equality facilitates economic growth by enabling better allocation of a valuable resource: female labor. By allocating female labor to its more productive use, we hypothesize that reducing gender inequality should disproportionately benefit industries with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827585
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Capital Account Liberalization and Inequality
Furceri, Davide - 2016
This paper examines the distributional impact of capital account liberalization. Using panel data for 149 countries from 1970 to 2010, we find that, on average, capital account liberalization reforms increase inequality and reduce the labor share of income in the short and medium term. We also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999758
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The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Financial Globalization : Evidence from Macro and Sectoral Data
Furceri, Davide - 2018
-financial globalization. Both country- and industry-level resultssuggest that such policies have led on average to limited output gains while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918557
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The Distribution of Gains from Globalization
Lang, Valentin - 2018
We study economic globalization as a multidimensional process and investigate its effect on incomes. In a panel of 147 … countries during 1970-2014, we apply a new instrumental variable, exploiting globalization's geographically diffusive character …, and find differential gains from globalization both across and within countries: Income gains are substantial for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922630
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993722
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and GDP : What National Accounts Bring to the Table
Alexander, Thomas - 2018
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015 represent a new global consensus to end poverty, promote prosperity, and protect the environment. Goal 8 seeks to improve global resource efficiency in consumption and production and to decouple economic growth...
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