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Ravallion, Martin - 2012

developing world, with some countries, and some people, more vulnerable than others. It also threatens to have lasting impacts …

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The Developing World is Poorer Than We Thought, but No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty

Chen, Shaohua; Ravallion, Martin - 2012

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world, lived …

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Global Poverty and Inequality : A Review of the Evidence

Ferreira, Francisco H.G.; Ravallion, Martin - 2012

points to the dominant role of Asia in accounting for the bulk of the world's poverty reduction since 1981. The evolution of …

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Location Decisions of Foreign Banks and Competitive Advantage

Claessens, Stijn; Van Horen, Neeltje - 2012

While institutional differences have been found to affect country growth patterns, much has remained unexplained, including how economic actors "overcome" institutional weaknesses and how internationalization helps or hinders development. Banking is an institutionally-intensive activity and the...

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International Financial Integration through Equity Markets : Which Firms from Which Countries Go Global?

Claessens, Stijn; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2012

equity, and cross-listing in major world stock markets. Using a large sample of 39,517 firms from 111 countries covering the …

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Measuring Ancient Inequality

Milanovic, Branko; Lindert, Peter H.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2012

Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...

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Determinants of Deposit-Insurance Adoption and Design

Demirg????-Kunt, Asli; Kane, Edward J.; Laeven, Luc - 2012

The authors seek to identify factors that influence decisions about a country's financial safety net, using a new dataset on 170 countries covering the 1960-2003 period. Specifically, they focus on how outside influences, economic development, crisis pressures, and political institutions affect...

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Global Income Inequality : What It Is and Why it Matters

Milanovic, Branko - 2012

inequality (inequality between citizens of the world). It discusses the relationship between globalization and global inequality …

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Resolution of Failed Banks by Deposit Insurers : Cross-Country Evidence

Beck, Thorsten; Laeven, Luc - 2012

There is a wide cross-country variation in the institutional structure of bank failure resolution, including the role of the deposit insurer. The authors use quantitative analysis for 57 countries and discuss specific country cases to illustrate this variation. Using data for over 1,700 banks...

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Current Challenges in Financial Regulation

Claessens, Stijn - 2012

Financial intermediation and financial services industries have undergone many changes in the past two decades due to deregulation, globalization, and technological advances. The framework for regulating finance has seen many changes as well, with approaches adapting to new issues arising in...

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