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less clear, but this masks an important and novel result. We find strong evidence that FDI and portfolio equity liabilities …
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This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a …-level investment is also negatively related to several measures of poverty. Overall, our results indicate that firm-level capital … reducing inequality and poverty. Our results may also be beneficial to policy makers as they consider a variety of regulatory …
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employment creation nor the decrease in within-country inequality are automatically assured by increasing trade and FDI. The …In this paper an ex-post measurable definition of globalization has been used, namely increasing trade openness and FDI … other main findings of the paper are that: 1) the employment effect can be very diverse in different areas of the world …
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We review the large literature on various economic policies that could help developing economies effectively manage the process of financial globalization. Our central findings indicate that policies promoting financial sector development, institutional quality and trade openness appear to help...
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This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that trade can act as an engine of growth using panel data for the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a regional integration agreement (RIA) organization, the central objective of whose formation was the need to accelerate, foster, and...
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study the nature of the relationship between poor health and non-employment on a sample of German men aged 30-59. We propose … to model poor health and non-employment as interrelated risks determined within a dynamic structure conditional on a set … persistence in the dynamics of poor health and non-employment …
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The world's poorest people lack capital and skills and toil for others in occupations that others shun. Using a large-scale and long-term randomized control trial in Bangladesh this paper demonstrates that sizable transfers of assets and skills enable the poorest women to shift out of...
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This paper provides an overview of the complex conceptual and practical challenges that emerging market economies face as they attempt to reform their frameworks for financial regulation. These economies are striving to balance the quest for financial stability with the imperatives of financial...
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employment and labor market dynamics in current EU-member and candidate countries. The ultimate aim of this analysis is the … increase of economywide employment in the accession countries and a small, if any, rise in this outcome variable in the current … structure of employment will shift further towards a higher share of service sector employment …
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The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty inUkraine during transition … various poverty lines... …
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