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/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time …-industrial Third World. This paper finds commodity price convergence to have been bigger in the Third World than the Atlantic economy …
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never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the … of life deep into the 18th century. Does world market integration breed more or less commodity price volatility? The … been associated with much greater commodity price volatility, while world market integration associated with peace and pro …
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globalization of the world's labor markets. We find that when people can choose between wage work and managerial work, the output …The rise in world trade since 1970 has raised international mobility of labor services. We study the effect of such a …
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This paper addresses the interactions between globalization, the quality of democracy, and economic convergence using … and globalization. To reflect context, as defined by space (geography) and time (history), we control for the distance to … and globalization put forward by Eichengreen and Leblang (2008) for the period 1870-2000. Focusing on the more recent wave …
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developing countries and emerging markets have experienced from integrating into the world economy over the past half century …
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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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for highly trained and skilled scientists and engineers from the world over. Though this is likely to persist for some …
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economy, all provided the Israeli economy with an entry "ticket" to the OECD; the 35-member group of the world advanced …- inflation advanced economy in the 2000s, while increasingly integrated into the world economy. The extraordinary events surveyed …
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"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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How does income from international migrant labor affect the long-run development of migrant-origin areas? We leverage the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis to identify exogenous changes in international migrant income across regions of the Philippines, derived from spatial variation in exposure to...
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