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The literature on the benefits and costs of financial globalization for developing countries has exploded in recent … perspective on the macroeconomic effects of financial globalization, both in terms of growth and volatility. Overall, our critical … benefit from financial globalization, but with many nuances. On the other hand, there is little systematic evidence to support …
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What is the role of transport improvements in globalization? We argue that the nineteenth century is the ideal testing …
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in approximately 4000 markets per country. We then move from groundnuts to globalization by building an exact TFP index … the typical country in the world, new imported varieties account for 15 percent of its productivity growth. These effects …
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This essay surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty. I focus on two measures of … globalization: trade and international capital flows. Past researchers have argued that global economic integration should help the … evidence suggests that the poor are more likely to share in the gains from globalization when there are complementary policies …
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This paper evaluates how much of the economics profession has evaluated the evidence on the relationship between international trade and economic growth. The paper highlights the basic approaches to the trade and growth question that the literature has adopted. The case is made that more...
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In this paper, I examine changes in international trade associated with the integration of low- and middle-income countries into the global economy. Led by China and India, the share of developing economies in global exports more than doubled between 1994 and 2008. One feature of new trade...
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Despite the major advances in information technology that have shaped the recent wave of globalization, openness to … suggests that a particular threat and a limiting factor to globalization and its future developments may be militarist …
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We investigate and compare countries' export growth based on their performance at the extensive and intensive export margins. Our empirical approach is motivated by an extension to the Melitz (2003) model of heterogeneous firms in which exporters are subject to a one-time sunk cost and also a...
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lead to faster growth in countries then known as the Third World, but now categorized as emerging and developing economies …
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which financial globalization can be a substitute for reforms of domestic financial system. Inefficient financial system and … investment. While financial globalization always improves the welfare of a developed country with a good financial system, its … the world than many developing countries. A noteworthy feature of this theory is that financial and property rights …
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