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Three macroeconomic trends around the onset of armed conflict in developing economies

Lederman, Daniel; Rojas, Claudio J. - 2018

of these variables in conflict-afflicted economies with economies that did not experience social conflict. The analyses … cover episodes of conflict from around the world and study the evolution of these variables during the five years prior to … and five years after the onset of conflicts. Further, four alternative definitions of social conflict are used to …

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The Evolving Importance of Banks and Securities Markets

Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Feyen, Erik; Levine, Ross - 2012

This paper examines the evolving importance of banks and securities markets during the process of economic development. As economies develop, they increase their demand for the services provided by securities markets relative to those provided by banks, such that securities markets become...

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Skills, Exports, and the Wages of Five Million Latin American Workers

Brambilla, Irene; Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Lederman, Daniel - 2012

The returns to schooling or the skill premium is a key parameter in various literatures, including globalization and inequality and international migration. This paper explores the skill premium and its link to exports in Latin America, thus linking the skill premium to the emerging literature...

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Latin America and the Rising South : Changing World, Changing Priorities

de la Torre, Augusto - 2015 - Online-Ausg.

The world economy is not what it used to be twenty years ago. For most of the 20th century, the world economy was characterized by developed (North) countries acting as 'center' to a 'periphery' of developing (South) countries. However, the recent rise of developing economies suggests the need...

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Institutions for Regulatory Governance

World Bank (contributor); … - International Finance Corporation - 2010

This paper looks at the role and design of regulatory reform institutions in developing countries. These institutions … and by promoting the regulatory reform agenda; and 4) Ad hoc institutions for regulatory reform, established to launch …: section one briefly reviews the theoretical debate and literature about the role of institutions in facilitating higher …

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Stages of development of payment systems : leapfrogging across countries and MENA's place in the world

Gévaudan, Clément; Lederman, Daniel - 2020

This paper studies the relationship between the level of economic development and the incidence of three forms of payments across countries, namely the incidence of bank accounts, digital payments, and mobile money accounts among the adult populations across countries. It presents simple...

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Inequality and economic growth : the role of initial income

Brückner, Markus; Lederman, Daniel - 2018

This paper estimates a panel model in which the relationship between inequality and gross domestic product per capita growth depends on countries' initial incomes. Estimates of the model show that the relationship between inequality and gross domestic product per capita growth is significantly...

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Anatomy and impact of export promotion agencies

Cruz, Marcio José Vargas da; Lederman, Daniel; … - 2018

Recent literature has shown evidence of positive contributions of export promotion agencies around the world in raising exports, through the intensive and extensive margins of trade. The number of export promotion agencies has increased substantially over the past two decades, and most of them...

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The Global Findex Database 2017 : Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution

Demirguc-Kunt, Asli - 2018

In 2011 the World Bank-with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-launched the Global Findex database, the world's most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. Drawing on survey data collected in collaboration with Gallup, Incorporated, the...

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Data transparency and long-run growth

Islam, Asif Mohammed; Lederman, Daniel - 2020

of several factors in addition to political institutions and exogenous commodity-price and external debt-financing shocks …

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