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The Uruguay Round and Net Food Importers

Eiteljörge, Uwe - 1995

This paper attempts to assess the incremental external financing requirements occasioned by changes in world food …

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Helpman, Elhanan - 1994

We examine the extent to which developing countries that do little, if any, research and development themselves benefit from R&D that is performed in the industrial countries. By trading with an industrial country that has a large “stock of knowledge” from its cumulative R&D activities, a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398245

Environmental Protectionism, North-South Trade, and the Uruguay Round

Sorsa, Piritta - 1995

The paper seeks to provide an overview of the present state of debate on trade, environment and the GATT for developing countries. Potential for green protectionism and relevant GATT rules are discussed in three areas: i) environmental product regulations including eco-labeling and other product...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396257

On the Viability of Conditional Assistance Programs

Mayer, Wolfgang - 2005

Economic adjustment and reform programs, including those supported by international financial institutions (IFIs), must cope with informational asymmetries and special interest politics. This presents a particularly serious issue when IFIs make structural economic reforms a condition for...

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External Capital Structure : Theory and Evidence

Lane, Philip R. - 2000

Recent years have witnessed a change in the composition of capital flows to developing countries, and FDI and equity flows have been playing an increasing role. In this paper we discuss the challenges for international macroeconomics that these developments pose and characterize stylized facts...

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Income Inequality and Redistributive Government Spending

International Monetary Fund - 2003

The paper examines empirically the question of whether more unequal societies spend more on income redistribution than their more egalitarian counterparts. Theoretical arguments on this issue are inconclusive. The political economy literature suggests that redistributive spending is higher in...

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International Trade and Poverty Alleviation

Bannister, Geoffrey J. - 2001

Empirical studies suggest that trade reform has a positive effect on employment and income for the poor; however, there are winners and losers. If the transitional costs of trade liberalization fall disproportionately on the poor, trade reform can be designed to mitigate these effects. This...

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The Burden of Sub-Saharan African Own Commitments in the Uruguay Round : Myth or Reality?

Sorsa, Piritta - 1995

The paper reviews Sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) (i) own market access commitments in the Uruguay Round, and (ii) the nature of the constraints on SSA policies set by the Uruguay Round. It concludes that SSA failed to use the Uruguay Round to lock domestic reforms to an international anchor. Apart...

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The Real Effects of Financial Sector Interventions During Crises

Valencia, Fabian - 2011

We collect new data to assess the importance of supply-side credit market frictions by studying the impact of financial sector recapitalization packages on the growth performance of firms in a large cross-section of 50 countries during the recent crisis. We develop an identification strategy...

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Precautionary Demand for Foreign Assets in Sudden Stop Economies : An Assessment of the New Merchantilism

Mendoza, Enrique G. - 2007

Financial globalization was off to a rocky start in emerging economies hit by Sudden Stops in the 1990s. The surge in … assets via business cycle volatility, financial globalization, and endogenous Sudden Stops. Our results show that financial … globalization and Sudden Stop risk are plausible explanations of the surge in reserves but cyclical volatility, which has declined …

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