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Grain price spikes and beggar-thy-neighbor policy responses : a global economywide analysis
Jensen, Hans G; Anderson, Kym - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
affects their domestic food markets. Those actions exacerbate the price spike and international welfare transfer associated … 2006-08 international price rise, but only by focusing on one commodity or using a back-of-the-envelope method. This paper … results support the conclusion from earlier studies that there is a need for stronger World Trade Organization disciplines on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010889039
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Poverty impacts of the volume-based special safeguard mechanism
Ivanic, Maros; Martin, Will - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
simulations for 31 countries suggest that use of this safeguard in line with the proposed World Trade Organization rules would … raise the world poverty headcount by an average of 24 million. The adverse poverty impact of the duty is larger when the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010889040
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Small business tax policy, informality, and tax evasion -- evidence from Georgia
Bruhn, Miriam; Loeprick, Jan - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Using a panel of administrative data and regression discontinuity analysis, this paper examines how the introduction of preferential tax regimes for Georgian micro and small businesses in 2010 affects formal firm creation and tax compliance. The results show that the new tax regime for micro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010889042
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Short- and long-run impacts of food price changes on poverty
Ivanic, Maros; Martin, Will - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
countries to assess the impacts of changes in global food prices on poverty in individual countries and for the world as a whole …. The analysis finds that food price increases unrelated to productivity changes in developing countries raise poverty in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010889044
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Corporate governance and bank insolvency risk : international evidence
Anginer, Deniz; Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Huizinga, Harry; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
This paper finds that shareholder-friendly corporate governance is positively associated with bank insolvency risk, as proxied by the Z-score and the Merton's distance to default measure, for an international sample of banks over the 2004-08 period. Banks are special in that"good"corporate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010903281
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Dynamics of demand for rainfall index insurance : evidence from a commercial product in India
Stein, Daniel - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
This paper analyzes the dynamic nature of rainfall insurance purchasing decisions, specifically looking at whether and why receiving an insurance payout induces a greater chance of purchasing insurance again the next year. This analysis uses customer data from the Indian micro-finance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010903283
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The African financial development and financial inclusion gaps
Allen, Franklin; Carletti, Elena; Cull, Robert; Qian, Jun; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
This paper investigates the African financial development and financial inclusion gaps relative to other peer developing countries. The paper uses a set of variables related to financial development and inclusion. It first estimates the gaps between African countries and other developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010903291
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Investment climate reforms and job creation in developing countries : what do we know and what should we do ?
Rahman, Aminur - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
firms in developing countries. The World Bank Group, in partnership with development partners and client government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010903297
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The impact of exogenous shocks on households in the Pacific : a micro-simulation analysis
Cororaton, Caesar B.; Knight, David S. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
previously by the World Bank to analyze the impacts of the Food and Fuel Price Crisis. The results of micro-simulations serve to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010932953
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Reducing trade costs in east Africa : deep regional integration and multilateral action
Balistreri, Edward J.; Tarr, David G.; Yonezawa, Hidemichi - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
There is substantial evidence that with the progressive global decline in tariffs over several decades, trade costs are a more significant barrier to trade than tariffs, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper decomposes trade costs into three categories: costs that can be lowered by trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010932956