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Capital Account Policies, IMF Programs and Growth in Developing Regions
Bicaba, Zorobabel - 2015
This paper develops an adaptive learning model under uncertainty that examines evolution of capital account polices over time and across developing regions. In the framework, countries' past experiences and IMF programs influence policymakers' beliefs about the impact of capital account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029623
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The World Trade Organization and Antidumping in Developing Countries
Bown, Chad P. - 2012
Since the 1995 inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO), developing countries have become some of the most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553835
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What Is Effective Aid? How Would Donors Allocate It?
Kenny, Charles - 2012
development. This paper looks at what the cross-country aid effectiveness literature and World Bank Operations Evaluation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553827
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Agency and Communication in IMF Conditional Lending : Theory and Empirical Evidence
Marchesi, Silvia - 2014
We focus on the role that the transmission of information between a multilateral (the IMF) and a country has for the optimal design of conditional reforms. Our model predicts that when agency problems are especially severe, and/or IMF information is valuable, a centralized control is indeed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750944
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Goals for Development : History, Prospects, and Costs
Devarajan, Shantayanan; Miller, Margaret J.; Swanson, … - 2013
The Millennium Development Goals set quantitative targets for poverty reduction and improvements in health, education, gender equality, the environment, and other aspects of human welfare. At existing rates of progress many countries will fall short of these goals. However, if developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559580
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Aid, Policies, and Growth : Revisiting the Evidence
Burnside, Craig; Dollar, David - 2013
The authors revisit the relationship between aid and growth using a new data set focusing on the 1990s. The evidence supports the view that the impact of aid depends on the quality of state institutions and policies. The authors use an overall measure of institutions and policies popular in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559666
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Reform of the International Monetary System : A Jagged History and Uncertain Prospects
Lin, Justin Yifu; Fardoust, Shahrokh; Rosenblatt, David - 2012
developing countries in the world economy and the emerging multi-polar growth setting. It evaluates the stability of the current …, the paper evaluates the stability of the emerging system, as well as the current proposals for reform of the international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554502
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Industrialization Under Medieval Conditions? Global Development after Covid-19
Naudé, Wim - 2021
of the medieval world. It comes at a time when innovation had already been stagnating under guild-like corporate … industrial revolution (4IR) to a premature end. Hence the post-COVID-19 world may be left with trade as the only engine for … industrialization for the foreseeable future. If the global community fails to fix the multilateral trade system, the world may start to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315031
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Regional Impacts of Russia???s Accession to the World Trade Organization
Rutherford, Thomas; Tarr, David - 2012
accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the regions of Russia. We estimate that the average gain in welfare as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553836
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The Case for Tradable Remedies in WTO Dispute Settlement
Bagwell, Kyle; Mavroidis, Petros C.; Staiger, Robert W. - 2013
In response to concerns over the efficacy of the WTO dispute settlement system, especially in regard to its use by developing countries, Mexico has tabled a proposal to introduce tradable remedies within the Dispute Settlement Understanding. The idea is that a country that has won cause before...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559767