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liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …
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are built up using newly available tariff line data and their implications for world markets are established using a … global modeling framework. These world trade impacts, in turn, form the basis for 12 country case studies of the national … cross-section analysis, and a global analysis provides estimates for the world as a whole. …
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barriers (in agriculture and textiles) are particularly harmful to the world's poorest people, as are barriers to worker … process at the World Trade Organization (WTO), and freeing up the international movement of workers. A review of the economic … required to rank this set of opportunities against those aimed at addressing the world's other key challenges as part of the …
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While substantial research finds that financial development boosts overall economic growth, the authors study whether financial development is pro-poor: Does financial development disproportionately raise the income of the poor? Using a broad cross-country sample, the authors find that the...
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One of the most contentious issues of globalization is the effect of global economic integration on inequality and … poverty. This paper documents five trends in the modern era of globalization, starting around 1980. Trend #1: Poor country … developing world economy grew at more than 3.5 percent per capita in the 1990s. Trend #2: The number of poor people in the world …
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. (2) Free world trade has similar, but larger, impacts. (3) Domestic trade liberalization induces an expansion of … liberalization effects far outweigh those of free world trade when these scenarios are combined. (5) Remittances constitute a …
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world markets. Using a partial-equilibrium, multi-market, international model, the authors analyze the trade and welfare …-South dimension with policies in India, and to a lesser extent China, heavily depressing the world prices of groundnut products at the …
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This paper provides a review of the contradictions and conflicts in the literature on economic governance and sketches an approach to use some of the conceptual and empirical findings from that literature for development policy. The literature offers conflicting conclusions on big questions:...
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"globalization years" of 1986-2004. Controlling for trade openness and two indicators of financial globalization, the authors find … the output costs of promoting high interest rates to attract capital flows in a global world. These findings are robust to … the treatment of endogenous globalization measures. …
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Most of the world's poorest people depend on farming for their livelihood. Earnings from farming in low …
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