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recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the … development in a number area where similar trends are observed. The areas studied include globalization, in-sourcing and … commercialization and transfer of technologies, and increased income inequality and concentration of severe poverty in certain regions …
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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 … and absolute poverty alleviation, although some important counter-examples emerge …
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In this research, the relationship between globalisation and poverty and income inequality is determined. A whole new … analysis show that there is a significant relationship between globalisation and poverty and income inequality. Globalisation … leads to poverty reduction and it reduces income inequality. The relationship between globalisation and poverty remains …
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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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This paper reviews a growing literature on migration and globalization, focusing on its relevance for developing and …
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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 …
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absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to … poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty …
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We investigate the impact of health aid on infant mortality conditional on the quality of governance in 96 recipient countries. Our analysis applies the long difference estimator and instrumental variable estimation, with aid instrumented by donor government fractionalization interacted with the...
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Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...
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This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the missing link between foreign aid and economic growth. The composition of aid plays a crucial role in determining the composition of government spending and, consequently, the magnitude of fungibility and its impact on growth....
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