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Financial inclusion has been one of the key pillars of Colombia’s development strategy for a number of years. Financial …
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This paper investigates the sensitivity of Colombian GDP growth to the surroundingmacroeconomic environment. We estimate a Bayesian VAR model with informative steady-statepriors for the Colombian economy using quarterly data from 1995 to 2007. A variancedecomposition shows that world GDP growth...
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activities. This paper shows that the rise of inflation in Colombia, from low levels in the 1950s to average rates of 18 …
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the middle and late 1970s and by Colombia almost a decade later in the late 1980s and early 1990s. These reforms have …
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The lack of a clear link between general economic fundamentals and export diversification indicators in the literature … traditional methodologies: using export categories that lead to diversification (for example, manufactures) as dependent variables …
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Export structure is less diversified in low-income countries (LICs) and especially small states that face resource … constraints and small economic size. This paper explores the potential linkages between export structure and economic growth and … its volatility in LICs and small states, using a range of indices of export concentration differing in the coverage of …
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The use of e-commerce around the world has accelerated in recent years, with Asia, led by China, spearheading the rise. Using cross-country enterprise survey data, this paper shows that firms engaged in e-commerce have higher productivity and generate a larger share of their revenues from...
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We explore the contribution of product-quality upgrading to the export performance of six fast-growing Asian economies … changes in these countries' sectoral export shares during 1970-2010. We build a multisector Ricardian trade model which allows … for changes in product quality, and calibrate it to generate predictions about export volumes. Unlike previous literature …
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