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's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 …
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the case of metal crime, where in the face of big increases in value driven by world commodity prices, the incidence of …
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Commodity price increases associated with the entry of China, India and other countries into the world economy has led …
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world shows that the long-term impact of a China GDP shock on the typical Latin American economy has increased by three … associated with a deceleration in China's economic growth in the future for both Latin America and the rest of the world economy …. The evidence reported also suggests that the emergence of China as an important source of world growth might be the driver …
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This paper presents a new data set collected on representative samples across 6 countries: China, South Korea, Japan …
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Defining the 'global middle class' as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate the size of the … global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China's expanding middle class in international perspective …. China's global middle class has grown rapidly and has been catching up with that in developed countries. By 2018 China …
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changes for the balance and sustainability of China's own economic development as well as the associated implications for the … global monetary system. While China is actively promoting the internationalization of its currency, it is a long way from … attaining full convertibility or meeting other prerequisites for achieving reserve currency status. Ultimately, China will …
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We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...
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The risk of default that business firms face is very significant and differs widely across countries. This paper explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade embedment and the default risk at the country level from a theoretical point of view. Our main...
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Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. We find that emigration and human capital both...
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