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Global Economic Prospects, Volume 9, June 2014 : Shifting Priorities, Building for the Future
World Bank - 2014
weak first quarter growth in the US due to weather and the conflict in Ukraine. Going forward growth is projected to firm …
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Global Economic Prospects, Volume 7, June 2013
The World Bank - 2013
The global economy appears to be transitioning toward a more stable period. Although acute risks have diminished, real-side activity remains sluggish †“ especially in high-income Europe. Most developing countries have fully recovered from the crisis. Although growth is slower than during the...
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Global Economic Prospects, Volume 6, January 2013 : Assuring Growth Over the Medium Term
The World Bank - 2013
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Corporate Governance and Development : An Update
Claessens, Stijn - 2012
What do we know about the links between economic development and corporate governance in emerging markets? Stijn Claessens and Burcin Yurtoglu have sifted through scores of academic studies on various countries, sectors, and business organizations - from state-owned enterprises to publicly...
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Cross-border patenting, globalization, and development
LaBelle, Jesse; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2023
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Delayed participation of developing countries to climate agreements: should action in the EU and US be postponed?
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Tavoni, Massimo - 2008
This paper analyses the cost implications for climate policy in developed countries if developing countries are unwilling to adopt measures to reduce their own GHG emissions. First, we assume that a 450 CO2 (550 CO2e) ppmv stabilisation target is to be achieved and that Non Annex1 (NA1)...
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Alternative paths toward a low carbon world
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Tavoni, Massimo - 2010
This paper analyzes the economic and investment implications of a series of climate mitigation scenarios, characterized by different levels of ambition in terms of long term stabilization goals and the transition to attain them. In particular, the implications of fairly ambitious scenarios are...
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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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Corporate tax policy in developed countries and economic activity in Africa
Hoopes, Jeffrey L.; Lester, Rebecca; Klein, Daniel; … - 2023
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Climate-induced international migration and conflicts
Cattaneo, Cristina; Bosetti, Valentina - 2016
Population movements will help people facing the impact of climate change. However, the resulting large scale displacements may also produce security risks for receiving areas. The objective of this paper is to empirically estimate if the inflows of climate-induced migrants increase the risk of...
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