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Openness and Technological Innovations in Developing Countries : Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys
Almeida, Rita; Fernandes, Ana Margarida - 2012
The authors analyze the role of international technological diffusion for firm-level technological innovations in several developing countries. Their findings show that, after controlling for firm, industry, and country characteristics, exporting and importing activities are important channels...
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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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Globally Engaged Firms in the COVID-19 Crisis
Constantinescu, Cristina; Fernandes, Ana Margarida; … - 2022
This paper analyzes the initial impact and recovery of globally engaged firms from the COVID-19 crisis. It uses rich survey data of nearly 65,000 firm-year observations in 45 countries spanning three waves of data collection. The findings are organized in a series of stylized facts, which...
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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 …
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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...
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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...
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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