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"Revenue Management" Effects Related to Financial Flows Generated by Climate Policy
Strand, Jon - 2012
This paper discusses possible macroeconomic implications for low-income countries of increased revenue inflows that may follow from implementing certain global greenhouse gas mitigation policies. Such revenue sources include revenue from emissions offset mechanisms, direct investments, and...
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Are Price-Based Capital Account Regulations Effective in Developing Countries?
David, Antonio C. - 2012
The author evaluates the effectiveness of policy measures adopted by Chile and Colombia, aiming to mitigate the deleterious effects of pro-cyclical capital flows. In the case of Chile, according to his Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) analysis, capital controls succeeded in reducing net...
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Do Workers' Remittances Reduce the Probability of Current Account Reversals?
Bugamelli, Matteo; Patern??, Francesco - 2012
The authors combine the literature on financial crises in emerging markets and developing economies with that on international migrations by investigating whether the increasingly large flows of workers' remittances can help reduce the probability of current account reversals. The rationale for...
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Global Capital Flows and Financing Constraints
Harrison, Ann E.; Love, Inessa; McMillan, Margaret S. - 2013
Firms often cite financing constraints as one of their primary obstacles to investment. Global capital flows, by bringing in scarce capital, may ease the financing constraints of host country firms. But if incoming foreign investors borrow heavily from domestic banks, foreign direct investment...
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Attracting Foreign Direct Investment : What Can South Asia's Lack of Success Teach Other Developing Countries?
Gould, David M.; Tan, Congyan; Sadeghi Emamgholi, Amir S. - 2014
Like many other developing countries, South Asian nations have been experiencing increased foreign direct investment inflows over the past decade as developing countries get a larger share of cross-border investments that were once sent to developed countries. Nonetheless, South Asia's inflows...
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Crises, Capital Controls, and Financial Integration
Yeyati, Eduardo Levy; Schmukler, Sergio L.; Van Horen, … - 2012
This paper analyzes the effects of capital controls and crises on international financial integration, using data on stocks from emerging economies that trade in domestic and international markets. The cross-market premium (the ratio between the domestic and international market price of...
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Financial Globalization in Emerging Countries : Diversification vs. Offshoring
Ceballos, Francisco; Didier, Tatiana; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2012
transactions take place. The authors find that globalization via the diversification channel expanded throughout the world during …
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Country Portfolios
Kraay, Aart; Loayza, Norman; Serv??n, Luis - 2013
, production risk and sovereign risk. This model generates a set of country portfolios and a world distribution of capital stocks …
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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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