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What has Foreign Market Intervention Since the Plaza Agreement Accomplished?

Bordo, Michael D. - 1990

We review the conduct and scale of official intervention by monetary authorities in the U.S.A., Japan, and West Germany …

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North-South R&D Spillovers

Coe, David T. - 1995

We examine the extent to which developing countries that do little, if any research and development themselves benefit from R&D that is performed in the industrial countries. By trading with an industrial country that has large 'stocks of knowledge' from its cumulative R&D activities, a...

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International Policy Coordination : The Case of the Developing Country Debt Crisis

Sachs, Jeffrey D. - 1987

This paper reviews the management of the debt crisis to date, and considers several possible alternative approaches for international cooperation in the future. The first part of the paper briefly reviews the scope of the crisis, and some of the reasons for its onset. Then, the paper describe...

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Property Rights and Financial Development : The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Institutions

Yoo, Dongwoo - 2010

this line of research to Asia. Japan imposed its system of well-defined property rights in land on some of its Asian … colonies, including Korea, Taiwan and Palau. In 1939 Japan began to survey and register private land in its island colonies, an … land registration obsolete. Third, considering all of Japan's colonies, we use the presence or absence of a land survey as …

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East Asian Financial and Economic Development

Morck, Randall - 2017

Japan, an isolated, backward country in the 1860s, industrialized rapidly to become a major industrial power by the …

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Finance, inequality, and poverty : cross-country evidence

Beck, Thorsten - 2004

"While substantial research finds that financial development boosts overall economic growth, we study whether financial development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we distinguish among competing theoretical predictions...

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Land, Labor and Globalization in the Pre-Industrial Third World

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2000

, Egypt, Japan, Korea, the Punjab, Taiwan, Thailand and Uruguay. These 9 have been added to a previously-collected data base …

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Emerging Equity Markets and Economic Development

Bekaert, Geert - 2000

We provide an analysis of real economic growth prospects in emerging markets after financial liberalizations. In contrast with previous research, we identify the financial liberalization dates and examine the influence of liberalizations while controlling for a number of other macroeconomic and...

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How Economic Development Influences the Environment

Jayachandran, Seema - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Reducing global poverty and addressing climate change and other environmental crises are among the most important challenges facing humanity today. This review article discusses one way in which these problems are intertwined: economic development affects the environment. I synthesize recent...

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New Evidence on Sectoral Labor Productivity : Implications for Industrialization and Development

Herrendorf, Berthold; Rogerson, Richard Donald; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Moving labor from agriculture to manufacturing - "industrialization" - is often viewed as essential for the development of poor countries. We present new evidence on the channels through which industrialization can help poor countries close the productivity gap with rich countries. To achieve...

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