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Do Government Policies that Promote Competition Encourage??? or Discourage???New Product and Process Development In Low and Middle-Income Countries?
Clarke, George R. G. - 2012
not feel pressure (Carlin and others 2001; World Bank 2004). However, competition also appears to affect innovation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553933
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Bailing Out the World's Poorest
Ravallion, Martin - 2012
developing world, with some countries, and some people, more vulnerable than others. It also threatens to have lasting impacts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552231
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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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Is the Developing World Catching up? Global Convergence and National Rising Dispersion
Bussolo, Maurizio; De Hoyos, Rafael E.; Medvedev, Denis - 2012
rest of the world. Second, this convergence process will be accompanied by a widening of income distribution in two …
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Who Are the Net Food Importing Countries?
Ng, Francis; Aksoy, M. Ataman - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to update the information on net food importing countries, using different definitions of food, separating countries by their level of income, whether they are in conflict and whether they are significant oil exporters. The study also estimates the changes in net...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552248
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Patterns of Export Diversification in Developing Countries : Intensive and Extensive Margins
Amurgo-Pacheco, Alberto; Pierola, Martha Denisse - 2012
This paper uses highly disaggregated trade data to investigate geographic and product diversification patterns across a group of developing nations for the period from 1990 to 2005. The econometric investigation shows that the gravity equation fits the observed differences in diversification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552260
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Country Stakes in Climate Change Negotiations : Two Dimensions of Vulnerability
Buys, Piet; Deichmann, Uwe; Meisner, Craig - 2012
Using a comprehensive geo-referenced database of indicators relating to global change and energy, the paper assesses countries' likely attitudes with respect to international treaties that regulate carbon emissions. The authors distinguish between source and impact vulnerability and classify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552750
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Doha Merchandise Trade Reform : What???s at Stake for Developing Countries?
Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will; van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique - 2012
liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553673
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The Data Chase : What's Out There on Trade Costs and Nontariff Barriers?
Bagai, Shweta; Wilson, John S. - 2012
has been informed by work underway at the World Bank on trade facilitation over the past several years to catalogue data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553724
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The World Trade Organization and Antidumping in Developing Countries
Bown, Chad P. - 2012
Since the 1995 inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO), developing countries have become some of the most … import protection to provide. First, we find evidence consistent with the theory of endogenous trade policy: larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553835