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Eight years of Doha trade talks : where do we stand

Bouet, Antoine; Laborde, David - HAL - 2010

. We study how this trade reform can be more development-friendly. …In 2001, the World Trade Organization launched a highly ambitious program of multilateral liberalization. Eight years … evaluation of these various proposals shows how trade negotiations have been following countries' strategic interests. In eight …

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Firm Productivity and Investment Climate in Developing Countries: How Does Middle East and North Africa Manufacturing Perform?

Plane, Patrick; Veganzones, Marie-Ange; Kinda, Tidiane - HAL - 2011

Firm productive performances in five Middle East and North African (MENA) economies and eight manufacturing industries are compared to those in 17 other developing countries. Although the broad picture hides some heterogeneity, enterprises in MENA often performed inadequately compared to MENA...

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Firm Productivity and Investment Climate in Developing Countries: How Does Middle East and North Africa Manufacturing Perform?

Plane, Patrick; Veganzones, Marie-Ange; Kinda, Tidiane - HAL - 2011

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Employment and decent work in the era of flexicurity

Boyer, Robert - HAL - 2006

This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that the dynamism of employment is always contradictory to the enforcement of some forms of security for workers. Contemporary theorizing now recognizes the specificity of the wage-labour nexus. Consequently, minimum security is required for good...

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Bank Competition and Credit Constraints in Developing Countries: New Evidence

LEON, Florian - HAL - 2014

Whether competition helps or hinders small firms' access to finance is in itself a much debated question in the economic literature and in policy circles, especially in the developing world. Economic theory offers conflicting predictions and empirical contributions provide mixed results. This...

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Do National Numerical Fiscal Rules Really Shape Fiscal Behaviours in Developing Countries? A Treatment Effect Evaluation

Tapsoba, Rene - HAL - 2012

This paper analyses the effect of National Numerical Fiscal Rules (FRs) upon fiscal discipline in 74 developing countries over the period 1990-2007. It is the first study that assesses the impact of FRs on budgetary outcomes while controlling for the self-selection problem. It finds that the...

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Deficit, Seigniorage and the Growth Laffer Curve in developing countries

Ehrhart, Hélène; Minea, Alexandru; Villieu, P. - HAL - 2011

The endogenous growth literature has established the existence of an inverted-U curve between taxes and economic growth, namely a Growth Laffer Curve (GLC). We develop a growth model with public investment as the engine of perpetual growth, and look for the effect of deficit, tax and money...

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Aid effectiveness for poverty reduction:macroeconomic overview and emerging issues

Guillaumont, Patrick - HAL - 2011

The aim of this paper is to examine the main reasons how aid can contribute to poverty reduction, the channels through which it can do so and the lessons of the literature on these issues, with a special focus on the way aid can address the vulnerability faced by many developing countries.

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Aid and Income Stabilization

Jeanneney, Sylviane Guillaumont; Tapsoba, Sampawende Jules - HAL - 2011

trade. Stabilizing aid is effective in aid-dependent and vulnerable states. Aid volatility and disbursement lags are not …This article contributes to the debate on aid volatility and argues that official assistance copes with exogenous …

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Testing the finance-growth link: is there a difference between developed and developing countries?

Dufrénot, Gilles; Mignon, Valérie; Peguin-Feissolle, Anne - HAL - 2010

We revisit the evidence of the existence of a long -run link between financial intermediation and economic growth, by testing of cointegration between the growth rate of real GDP, control variables and three series reflecting financial intermediation. We consider a model with a factor structure...

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