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Small Developing States (SDS) face substantial challenges in achieving sustainable development. Many of these challenges relate to the small size and limited diversification of their economies. SDS are also among the most vulnerable countries to the impact of climate change and natural...
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-challenged world, and the importance of infrastructure investment geared toward such systems changes. The key policies to enable the … and innovation policies, building resilience and adaptation, better measurement of well-being and sustainability, and …
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Multidimensional assessment of human development is increasingly recognized as playing an important role in assessing well-being. The focus of analysis is on the indicators measuring the three dimensions of Human Development Index (HDI) - standard of living, education and health, and their...
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This paper considers the long-run evolution of the world economy in a model where countries'' opportunities to develop … opportunities for the remaining developing countries. Whether or not the world economy converges to widespread prosperity depends on …
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This paper examines the impact of rising trade and financial integration on international business cycle comovement among a large group of industrial and developing countries. The results provide at best limited support for the conventional wisdom that globalization has increased the degree of...
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We estimate a gravity model to address the question of whether Africa’s bilateral trade with industrial countries is “unusual” compared with other developing country regions. Our main finding is that the unusually low level of African trade is explained by economic size, geographical...
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Although the rest of the world had waited a long time for China to open up, feelings were mixed when it actually did … and began to integrate rapidly with the world economy. With the country’s recent accession to the World Trade Organization … (WTO), many of its trading partners are increasingly concerned that China’s competition in the world goods and capital …
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We use a unique data set for 115 countries, from 2000-18, and 5-year non-overlapping averages to explore the impact of technical assitance on revenue mobilization. To the authors' knowledge this is the first such effort to determine a direct relationship between technical assistance and the...
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