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Bown, Chad P. - 2015

Suppose that when addressing the question of “what’s left for the WTO?,” tariff negotiators relied not on the agenda established in 2001 but instead on the terms-of-trade theory of trade agreements to identify negotiating priorities. This paper uses the lens of the terms-of-trade theory to...

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Climate Change Impacts and Mitigation in the Developing World : An Integrated Assessment of the Agriculture and Forestry Sectors

Cantele, Matthew; Forsell, Nicklas; Gusti, Mykola; … - 2015

a world with high inequalities than in a more equal world. In the long run, impacts could be much stronger, with global …

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World Bank Lending and the Quality of Economic Policy

Knack, Stephen F.; Smets, Lodewijk - 2014

This study investigates the impact of World Bank development policy lending on the quality of economic policy. It finds … using the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessments of macro, debt, fiscal and structural policies, and … previous studies based on earlier loans are consistent with claims by the World Bank that it has learned from its mistakes with …

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Informal Economy and the World Bank

Beegle, Kathleen; Benjamin, Nancy Claire; Recanatini, … - 2014

Many countries have expressed an interest in the size, performance and motivation of the informal sector, especially where the informal sector provides the livelihood and employment for a critical segment of the population. This essay reviews recent literature, methodologies, and relevant Bank...

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Risks and Opportunities of Participation in Global Value Chains

Gereffi, Gary; Luo, Xubei - 2014

This is a background paper to the 2014 World Development Report. Risk is inherent to the pursuit of opportunity. This …

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Learning from Financial Crises

Lim, Jamus Jerome; Minne, Geoffrey - 2014

This paper considers the question of whether international banks learn from their previous crisis experiences and reduce their lending to developing countries in the event of a financial crisis. The analysis combines a bank-level dataset of bank activity and ownership with country-level data on...

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Gender Barriers, Structural Transformation, and Economic Development

Chiplunkar, Gaurav; Kleineberg, Tatjana - 2025

The representation and significance of women in the labor force have grown significantly over the past five decades around the globe. Using nationally representative data from more than 90 countries, this paper documents distinct gender patterns in employment transitions across both sectors and...

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