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Revisiting the global food architecture: Lessons from the 2008 food crisis

Christiaensen, Luc - 2009

The 2008 episode of food price explosion, political turmoil, and human suffering revealed important flaws in the current global food architecture. This paper argues that to safeguard the strengths of the current system, four failures in market functioning and policymaking must be addressed....

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WTO negotiation and accession issues for vulnerable economies

Langhammer, Rolf J.; Lücke, Matthias - 2001

The paper discusses the costs and benefits to be expected by least-developed and low-income (‘vulnerable’) economies if they accede to the WTO, the impact of current debates about WTO reform on vulnerable economies, and measures to make it easier for vulnerable economies to accede to and...

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Education is good for the poor: a note on Dollar and Kraay (2001)

Gundlach, Erich; Navarro de Pablo, José; Weisert, Natascha - 2001

A recent paper by Dollar and Kraay (2001) finds that higher primary educational attainment of the workforce does not increase the income of the poor except for its effect on average income. We test the robustness of their finding by using a broader measure of human capital that accounts for...

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Persistence of underdevelopment: Does the type of natural resource endowment matter?

Perälä, Maiju - 2003

This paper examines growth successes and failures across countries and notes the latter’s perplexing predominance among ex ante low-income economies. An explanation for this persistence of underdevelopment is proposed through an empirical investigation that brings forth evidence on the...

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Explaining the migration of stocks from exchanges in emerging economies to international centres

Claessens, Stijn; Kingebiel, Daniela; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2002

The purpose of the study is two-fold. First, it examines whether Internet usage converges across the geographical space comprising the European Union and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Second, it aims to expand the currently rather limited empirical evidence on the determinants of Internet...

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(Re)Distribution of personal incomes, education and economic performances across countries

Rehme, Günther - 2002

In many OECD countries income inequality has risen, but surprisingly redistribution has as well. The theory attributes this partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U-shaped way on education. To maintain a given...

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Bilateral donors' aid allocation decisions: A tree-dimensional panel analysis

Berthélemy, Jean-Claude; Tichit, Ariane - 2002

generally progressive, for most donors. It appears also that most donors pay a great attention to political governance when …

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Institutional investors, corporate ownership and corporate governance: Global perspectives

Gillan, Stuart L.; Starks, Laura T. - 2002

activism. We then examine differences in ownership structures around the world and the implications of the interactions of …

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Income distribution changes and their impact in the post- World War II period

Cornia, Giovanni Andrea; Addison, Tony; Kiiski, Sampsa - 2003

This paper analyses the trends in within-country inequality during the post- World War II period, with particular … attention to the last 20 years, on the basis of a review of the relevant literature and of an econometric analysis of inequality … trends in 73 countries accounting for 80 per cent of the world’s population and 91 per cent of world GDP-PPP. The paper …

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By how much does conflict reduce financial development?

Addison, Tony; Chowdhury, Abdur R.; Murshed, S. Mansoob - 2002

Financial development is vulnerable to social conflict. Conflict reduces the demand for domestic currency as a medium of exchange and a store of value. Conflict also leads to poor quality governance, including weak regulation of the financial system, thereby undermining the sustainability of...

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