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Trouble in the making? : the future of manufacturing-led development
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Nayyar, Gaurav - 2018
Technology and globalization are threatening manufacturing's traditional ability to deliver both productivity and jobs at a large scale for unskilled workers. Concerns about widening inequality within and across countries are raising questions about whether interventions are needed and how...
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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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Factor Endowments, Technology, Capital Mobility and the Sources of Comparative Advantage in Manufacturing
Hakobyan, Shushanik - 2016
Using data on net exports and factor endowments for more than 100 countries, this paper studies the relationship between factor endowments and comparative advantage in 28 manufacturing sectors between 1975 and 2010. The authors allow for systematic technological differences across countries,...
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Effects of Income Inequality on Aggregate Output
Brückner, Markus - 2015
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Regulatory Quality and Competition Policy
World Bank (contributor);  … - International Finance Corporation - 2010
protecting consumers through economic regulation. Part two of this paper considers institutions and processes for implementing …
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Making It Work : 'RIA Light' for Developing Countries
World Bank (contributor);  … - International Finance Corporation - 2010
This report is an output of the Better Regulation for Growth Program between the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and IC, the Investment Climate Advisory Services of the World Bank Group. The reports identifies a set of minimum...
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Investing across Borders 2010 : Indicators of Foreign Direct Investment Regulation in 87 Economies
World Bank (contributor);  … - International Finance Corporation - 2010
consulting firms), investment promotion institutions, chambers of commerce, and other expert respondents in each of the countries …
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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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Open and Nimble : Finding Stable Growth in Small Economies
Lederman, Daniel - 2017
Does economic size matter for economic development outcomes? If so are current policies adequately addressing the role of size in the development process? Using working age population as a proxy for country size, Open and Nimble, systematically analyzes what makes small economies unique. Small...
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The anatomy and the impact of export promotion agencies
Cruz, Marcio José Vargas da; Lederman, Daniel; … - In: Research handbook on economic diplomacy : bilateral …, (pp. 94-108). 2018
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