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Investment Climate and International Integration

Dollar, David; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Mengistae, Taye - 2013

Drawing on recently completed firm-level surveys in Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Honduras, India, Nicaragua, Pakistan, and Peru, this paper investigates the relationship between investment climate and international integration. These standardized surveys of large, random samples of firms in common...

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Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality Since 1980

Dollar, David - 2013

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 … developing world population living on less than $1 per day was cut in half since 1981. Trend #3: Global inequality (among … citizens of the world) has declined - modestly -- reversing a 200-year-old trend toward higher inequality. Trend #4: There is …

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Greening Global Value Chains : Some Implementation Challenges

Sinclair-Desgagn??, Bernard - 2014

The paper aims to highlight some of the most important implementation issues associated with the greening of global value chains with special attention given to how public policies and business strategies can support each other in meeting the challenge, particularly in developing countries. This...

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Are Global Value Chains Women Friendly in Developing Countries?

Kalliny, Marize; Zaki, Chahir - 2024

Despite the efforts made to increase women's inclusion in the economy, they are still underrepresented in trade in general and in global value chains in particular. Thus, this paper aims at examining the impact of global value chains on women's trade participation as entrepreneurs and employees....

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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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Weaponomics : The Global Market for Assault Rifles

Killicoat, Phillip - 2012

This paper introduces the first effort to quantitatively document the small arms market by collating field reports and journalist accounts to produce a cross-country time-series price index of Kalashnikov assault rifles. A model of the small arms market is developed and empirically estimated to...

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Creating an Efficient Financial System : Challenges in a Global Economy

Beck, Thorsten - 2012

Financial sector development fosters economic growth and reduces poverty by widening and broadening access to finance and allocating society's savings more efficiently. The author first discusses three pillars on which sound and efficient financial systems are built: macroeconomic stability and...

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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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Internationalization and the Evolution of Corporate Valuation

Gozzi, Juan Carlos; Levine, Ross; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2012

By documenting the evolution of Tobin's q before, during, and after firms internationalize, the authors provide evidence on the bonding, segmentation, and market timing theories of internationalization. Using new data on 9,096 firms across 74 countries over the period 1989-2000, they find that...

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How Concentrated are Global Infrastructure Markets?

Benitez, Daniel; Estache, Antonio - 2012

cases. We find no correlation between the degree of concentration and the degree of reform adopted by a region or a sector …

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