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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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Patenting and Research and Development : A Global View
Bosch, Mariano; Lederman, Daniel; Maloney, William F. - 2012
Using a new global data base on patents and innovation inputs, the authors examine the process of knowledge creation measured by the dynamic relationship between research and development and U.S. patents granted. They confirm at the country level the recurrent micro-level finding of a strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554194
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Innovation and Development around the World, 1960-2000
Lederman, Daniel; Saenz, Laura - 2012
The authors present a database of indicators of innovative activity around the world since the early 1960s. The data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554230
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Landlockedness, Infrastructure and Trade : New Estimates for Central Asian Countries
Grigoriou, Christopher - 2012
This paper assesses the impact of internal infrastructure and landlockedness on Central Asian trade using a panel gravity equation estimated on a large sample of countries (167 countries over 1992-2004). The panel structure of the dataset makes it possible to control for country-pair specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552782
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Trade and Employment : Stylized Facts and Research Findings
Hoekman, Bernard; Winters, L. Alan - 2012
subset of the literature focusing on trade policy and integration into the world economy. Although in the longer run trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554135
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552246
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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...
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