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Cape Verde and Mozambique as Development Successes in West and Southern Africa

de Macedo, Jorge Braga - 2010

This paper applies an interpretation of how globalization and governance (G&G) interact with convergence given Cape … Verde and Mozambique's particular geographical and historical contexts. We hold that development success under globalization … diversification (an indicator of globalization) and income convergence (an indicator of governance) in the sub-regions of West and …

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Putting Global Governance in its Place

Rodrik, Dani - 2019

In a world economy that is highly integrated, most policies produce effects across the border. This is often believed to be an argument for greater global governance, but the logic requires scrutiny. There remains strong revealed demand for policy and institutional diversity among nations,...

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Designing an International Economic Order : A Research Agenda

Bowen, Renee - 2020

The institutions that have sustained global economic cooperation for the past 75 years are under threat. Despite admonitions that global peace and prosperity are at risk, policymakers in important countries have ignored the rules of the multilateral order and moved down the path of unilateralism...

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Government Policies in a Granular Global Economy

Gaubert, Cecile; Itskhoki, Oleg; Vogler, Maximilian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We use the granular model of international trade developed in Gaubert and Itskhoki (2020) to study the rationale and implications of three types of government interventions typically targeted at large individual firms -- antitrust, trade and industrial policies. We find that in antitrust...

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China and the Multilateral Trading System

Lawrence, Robert Z. - 2006

This paper reviews China's multilateral and preferential trade policies. It reviews the demanding terms of China's WTO accession, its current tariff and trade regime and its participation in the Doha Round negotiations and the institution's regular activities. The analysis concludes that China's...

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The Dollar in an Era of International Retrenchment

Chahrour, Ryan; Valchev, Rosen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Recent trends suggest the world economy may be tending towards an equilibrium with two distinct trading blocs, each internally integrated, but with significant isolation between the blocs. This paper uses a quantitative theory to explore how far this bifurcation would need to go to pose a threat...

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Multilateral Economic Cooperation and the International Transmission of Fiscal Policy

Corsetti, Giancarlo - 2011

During the global financial crisis 2007-2009 fiscal policy was widely used as a stabilization tool. Policymakers allowed a large build-up of public debt resulting from both automatic and discretionary expansionary measures. At the same time, calls for policy coordination stressed that...

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International Policy Coordination : The Long View

Eichengreen, Barry - 2011

This paper places current efforts at international economic policy coordination in historical perspective. It argues that successful cooperation is most likely in four sets of circumstances. First, when it centers on technical issues. Second, when cooperation is institutionalized - when...

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International Economic Policy : Was There a Bush Doctrine?

Eichengreen, Barry - 2008

While many political scientists and diplomatic historians see the Bush presidency as a distinctive epoch in American foreign policy, we argue that there was no Bush Doctrine in foreign economic policy. The Bush administration sought to advance a free trade agenda but could not avoid the use of...

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Fooling Ourselves : Evaluating the Globalization and Growth Debate

Hallak, Juan Carlos - 2004

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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