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Finance, Inequality, and Poverty : Cross-Country Evidence
Beck, Thorsten; Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Levine, Ross - 2013
While substantial research finds that financial development boosts overall economic growth, the authors study whether financial development is pro-poor: Does financial development disproportionately raise the income of the poor? Using a broad cross-country sample, the authors find that the...
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Estimating Informal Trade across Tunisia's Land Borders
Ayadi, Lotfi; Benjamin, Nancy; Bensassi, Sami - 2014
This paper uses mirror statistics and research in the field to estimate the magnitude of Tunisia's informal trade with Libya and Algeria. The aim is to assess the scale of this trade and to evaluate the amount lost in taxes and duties as a result as well as to assess the local impact in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560839
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Democratic Jihad? Military Intervention and Democracy
Gleditsch, Nils Petter; Christiansen, Lene Siljeholm; … - 2012
normative justification for such interventions, for the purpose of promoting democracy and eventually for the promotion of peace … democracy. Thus, forced democratization is unpredictable with regard to achieving long-term democracy and potentially harmful …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552690
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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 …
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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