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Globalization and Workers in Developing Countries

Rama, Martín - 2003

Stories on the positive and negative effects of globalization on workers in developing countries abound. But a … describes the pattern of job destruction and job creation associated with globalization. Because these two processes are not … that can be used to offset the adverse effects of globalization on employment and labor earnings. Finally, it discusses how …

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Unequal Laws and the Disempowerment of Women in the Labor Market : Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Amin, Mohammed; Islam, Asif; Muzi, Silvia - 2017

Institutions are defined as the set of rules that govern human interactions. When these rules are discriminatory, they may disempower segments of a population in the economic spheres of activity. This study explores whether laws that discriminate against women influence their engagement in the...

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Goals for Development : History, Prospects, and Costs

Devarajan, Shantayanan; Miller, Margaret J.; Swanson, … - 2013

The Millennium Development Goals set quantitative targets for poverty reduction and improvements in health, education, gender equality, the environment, and other aspects of human welfare. At existing rates of progress many countries will fall short of these goals. However, if developing...

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Structural Transformation and Productivity Growth in Africa : Uganda in the 2000s

Ahmed, Sabin; Mengistae, Taye; Yoshino, Yutaka; … - 2015

Uganda’s economy underwent significant structural change in the 2000s whereby the share of non-tradable services in aggregate employment rose by about 7 percentage points at the expense of the production of tradable goods. The process also involved a 12-percentage-point shift in employment...

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Can Service Be a Growth Escalator in Low Income Countries?

Ghani, Ejaz; O'Connell, Stephen D. - 2014

benefitted from the third industrial revolution with globalization of services being at the forefront of this technological … revolution. As services produced and traded across the world expand with globalization, the possibilities for low …

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Trade and Innovation in Services : Evidence from a Developing Economy

Iacovone, Leonardo; Mattoo, Aaditya; Zahler, Andr??s - 2013

Studies on innovation and international trade have traditionally focused on manufacturing because neither was seen as important for services. Moreover, the few existing studies on services focus only on industrial countries, although in many developing countries services are already the largest...

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Quantifying the Impact of Services Liberalization in a Developing Country

Konan, Denise Eby; Maskus, Keith E. - 2004

The authors consider how service liberalization differs from goods liberalization in terms of welfare, the level and composition of output, and factor prices within a developing economy, in this case Tunisia. Despite recent movements toward liberalization, Tunisian service sectors remain largely...

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Globalization of Labor Markets and the Growth Prospects of Nations

Basu, Kaushik - 2016

The many and varied crises in the world economy since 2007 seem to have different origins and diverse manifestations. This paper contends that there is however a structural shift beneath the global economy that is now reaching a critical mass, and that accounts for many of these crises, despite...

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The Mechanics of Job Creation : Seizing the New Dividends of Globalization

Monga, C??lestin - 2014

creation by shedding light on the new economic opportunities that latecomers may derive from the dynamics of globalization …

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Labor Market Regulations : What Do We Know about Their Impacts in Developing Countries?

Betcherman, Gordon - 2014

Labor market regulation is a high-profile, and often contentious, area of public policy. Although these regulations have been studied most extensively in developed countries, there is a growing body of literature on their effects in developing countries. This paper reviews that literature and...

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