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China's Integration with the World: Development as a Process of Learning and Industrial Upgrading
Yifu, Justin; Wang, Yan - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
only partially successful. Although China is facing several difficult challenges -- including rising inequality, an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128773
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Trends in developing country trade 1980-2010
Michalopoulos, Constantine; Ng, Francis - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013
This paper reviews trends and patterns in developing countries'trade from 1980 to 2010. During the 30-year span, world trade expanded rapidly, especially in developing countries in the last decade. A similar picture emerges in trade in services. These overall trends, however, mask different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604330
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Financial development and international trade : is there a link?
Beck, Thorsten - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2001
The author explores a possible link between financial development and trade in manufactures. His theoretical model focuses on the role of financial intermediaries in facilitating large-scale, high-return projects. Results show that economies with better developed financial sectors have a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005133690
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Can Maquila Booms Reduce Poverty? Evidence from Honduras
E. de Hoyos, de Hoyos, Rafael E.; Bussolo, Maurizio; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008
points is attributable to the wage premium paid to maquila workers, 0.1 percentage points to the wage premium received by … women in the maquila sector, and 1 percentage point to employment creation. Given that female maquila workers represent only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005141430
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Trade Policy, Trade Costs, and Developing Country Trade
Hoekman, Hoekman , Bernard; Nicita, Alessandro - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008
This paper briefly reviews new indices of trade restrictiveness and trade facilitation that have been developed at the World Bank. The paper also compares the trade impact of different types of trade restrictions applied at the border with the effects of domestic policies that affect trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128847
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Aid is good for the poor
Hirano, Yumeka; Otsubo, Shigeru - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Aid is good for the poor. This paper uses detailed aid data spanning 60 developing countries over the past two decades to show that social aid significantly and directly benefits the poorest in society, while economic aid increases the income of the poor through growth. This new and unequivocal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884962
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Should income inequality be reduced and who should benefit ? redistributive preferences in Europe and Central Asia
Cojocaru, Alexandru; Diagne, Mame Fatou - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
This paper examines support for reducing inequality and for income redistribution to specific groups in Europe and … of support for reducing inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960249
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Measuring inequality from top to bottom
Bazan, Diaz; Valeria, Tania - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015
This paper presents a new methodology to measure inequality that optimally combines household survey information and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252713
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Is there persistence in the growth of manufactured exports? Evidence from newly industrializing countries
Mody, Ashoka; Yilmaz, Kamil; DEC - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1994
Price and income elasticities estimated from a country's export demand function are used both to predict and to prescribe effective export strategies. But the focus on elasticities has led to the neglect of an important empirical regularity: a strong persistencein the growth rate of a country's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079483
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Inequality, the price of nontradables, and the real exchange rate : theory and cross-country evidence
Min, Hong-Ghi - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2002
The author provides theoretical and empirical evidence of a negative association between income inequality and real … exchange rates. First, he builds a theoretical model showing the transmission mechanism from inequality to real exchange rates … poor, expanding opportunities for employment and income-generating activities for the poor, and promoting good governance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079501