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Migration and Globalization : What's in it for Developing Countries?
Rapoport, Hillel - 2016
This paper reviews a growing literature on migration and globalization, focusing on its relevance for developing and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985654
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Food for Fuel : The Effect of the US Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant - 2019
RFS on world food prices and their impact on household level consumption and wage incomes in India. We first develop a …, sugar and meat and dairy, which together provide almost 70% of Indian food calories. Our model predicts that world prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012898125
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Is the Allocation of Time Gender Sensitive to Food Price Changes? An Investigation of Hours of Work in Uganda
Campus, Daniela - 2016
Dramatic spikes in food prices, like those observed over the last years, represent a real threat to food security in developing countries with severe consequences for many aspects of human life. Price instability can also affect the intra-household allocation of time, thus changing the labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978168
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The Impact of Body Mass Index on Growth, Schooling, Productivity, and Savings : A Cross-Country Study
Tansel, Aysit; Öztürk, Ceyhan; Erdil, Erkan - 2021
We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability. Cognitive ability is represented by nutritional status. The proxy variable for nutritional status is BMI. We use the reduced form equation in the cubic specification of time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324576
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Can Crop Purchase Programs Reduce Poverty and Improve Welfare in Rural Communities? Evidence from the Food Reserve Agency in Zambia
Fung, Winnie - 2015
The last decade has seen a resurgence of parastatal crop marketing institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which cite improving food security and incomes as key goals. However, there is limited empirical evidence on the welfare effects of these programs. This article considers one such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014037
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How Do Trade and Financial Integration Affect the Relationship between Growth and Volatility
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Terrones, Marco E. - 2021
as conventional wisdom - that output volatility and growth are negatively correlated. We reexamine this relationship in … the context of globalization - a term typically used to describe the phenomenon of growing international trade and … basic negative association between growth and volatility has been preserved during the 1990s, both trade and financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318610
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Volatility and Growth : Governments are Key
Jetter, Michael - 2013
paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a … volatility is then ambiguous. The paper reveals the underlying endogeneity of government size in a balanced panel of 95 countries … increase of volatility lowers growth by up to 0.57 percentage points in a democracy, but raises growth by 1.74 percentage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071293
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Trading While Sleepy? Circadian Mismatch and Excess Volatility in a Global Experimental Asset Market
Dickinson, David L. - 2017
Traders in global markets operate at different local times-of-day. Suboptimal times-of-day may produce sleepiness due to daily variations in sleep/wake patterns and possibly also increased accumulation of hours awake. Global asset markets imply significantly increased heterogeneity in circadian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947730
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Globalization and Strategic Research Investments
Bohnstedt, Anna - 2011
We develop a general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms, where countries can invest into basic research to improve their technological potential. These research investments tighten firm selection and raise the average productivity of firms in the market, thereby...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131927
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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes
Schwarz, Christian - 2010
We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm's headquarter decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, it decides: i) on the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are part of the value...
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