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A Micro-Decomposition Analysis of the Macroeconomic Determinants of Human Development
Lambert, Sylvie; Ravallion, Martin; van de Walle, Dominique - 2012
. The paper illustrates the decomposition using data for Morocco and Vietnam, and the results offer some surprising insights …
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Poverty and Survival Prospects of Vietnamese Children under Doi Moi
Wagstaff, Adam; Nguyen, Nga Nguyet - 2013
By international standards, and given its relatively low per capita income, Vietnam has achieved substantial reductions … inequalities in child survival are evident in Vietnam-a change from the early 1990s when none were apparent. The authors develop … progress among the poor will jeopardize Vietnam's chances of achieving the international development goals for child mortality …
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Reform, Growth, and Poverty in Vietnam
Dollar, David - 2013
Vietnam grew rapidly in the 1990s, and yet by many measures it has poor economic institutions. Dollar seeks to explain … this apparent anomaly. Between the 1980s and 1990s Vietnam carried out significant economic reforms, notably stabilization …. Relating these changes to the empirical growth literature, the author finds that Vietnam's growth acceleration is about what …
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Making Regional Cooperation Work for South Asia's Poor
Ahmed, Sadiq; Ghani, Ejaz - 2012
South Asia has attracted global attention because it has experienced rapid GDP growth over the last two decades. What is not so well known is that South Asia is the least integrated region in the world. South Asia has opened its door to the rest of the world but it remains closed to its...
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China, India, and the Future of the World Economy : Fierce Competition or Shared Growth?
Dimaranan, Betina; Ianchovichina, Elena; Martin, Will - 2012
Although both China and India are labor-abundant and dependant on manufactures, their export mixes are very different. Only one product-refined petroleum-appears in the top 25 products for both countries, and services exports are roughly twice as important for India as for China, which is much...
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China's Integration with the World : Development as a Process of Learning and Industrial Upgrading
Lin, Justin Yifu; Wang, Yan - 2012
The process of development is full of uncertainties, especially if it is a process of transition from a planned economy to a market oriented one. Because of uncertainties and country specificity, development must be a process of learning, selective adaptation, and industrial upgrading. This...
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Economic Partnership Agreements and the Export Competitiveness of Africa
Brenton, Paul; Hoppe, Mombert; Newfarmer, Richard - 2012
Trade can be a key driver of growth for African countries, as it has been for those countries, particularly in East Asia, that have experienced high and sustained rates of growth. Economic partnership agreements with the European Union could be instrumental in a competitiveness framework, but to...
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Trade Integration in East Asia : The Role of China and Production Networks
Haddad, Mona - 2012
Production networks have been at the heart of the recent growth in trade among East Asian countries. Fragmentation trade, reflected mainly in the trade in parts and components, is expanding more rapidly than the conventional trade in final goods. This is mainly due to the relatively more...
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Global Growth and Distribution : Are China and India Reshaping the World?
Bussolo, Maurizio; De Hoyos, Rafael E.; Medvedev, Denis - 2012
Over the past 20 years, aggregate measures of global inequality have changed little even if significant structural changes have been observed. High growth rates of China and India lifted millions out of poverty, while the stagnation in many African countries caused them to fall behind. Using the...
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Monitoring Export Vulnerability to Changes in Growth Rates of Major Global Markets
Hollweg, Claire H.; Lederman, Daniel; Reyes, Jos??-Daniel - 2013
Interest in assessing the impacts on developing countries of changes in major markets' economic performance has risen in tandem with global economic uncertainty over short- and medium-term growth prospects. This paper proposes a methodology to measure the vulnerability of a country's exports to...
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