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Financial Globalization : A Glass Half Empty?
Abraham, Facundo - 2017
Since the 1970s, the world has embarked on a new financial globalization era. Cross-country capital flows have … significantly increased in developed and developing countries. However, the characteristics of financial globalization differ from … financial globalization (such as additional funding, broad diversification, and deeper financial systems), the positive effects …
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Long-run returns to impact investing in emerging market and developing economies
Cole, Shawn; Melecký, Martin; Mölders, Florian; Reed, … - 2020
There is growing interest in impact investing, the idea of deploying capital to obtain both financial and social or environmental returns. Examination of every equity investment made by one of the largest and longest-operating impact investors across 130 emerging market and developing economies...
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Atlas of sustainable development goals 2017 : from World Development Indicators
Weltbank - 2017
Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the data -- Introduction -- The world by income, FY2017 -- The world by region -- Sustainable development goals -- 1. No poverty -- 2. Zero hunger -- 3. Good health and well-being -- 4. Quality education -- 5. Gender equality -- 6. Clean water and sanitation...
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Global inflation synchronization
Ha, Jongrim; Kose, M. Ayhan; Ohnsorge, Franziska - 2019
The paper studies the extent of global inflation synchronization using a dynamic factor model in a large set of countries over a half century. The authors' methodology allows them to account for differences across groups of countries (advanced economies and emerging market and developing...
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Think globally, act globally : opportunities to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in low- and middle-income countries
Glennerster, Rachel; Jayachandran, Seema - 2023
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Understanding inflation in emerging and developing economies
Ha, Jongrim; Kose, M. Ayhan; Ohnsorge, Franziska - 2019
Emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) have experienced an extraordinary decline in inflation since the early 1970s. After peaking in 1974 at 17.3 percent, inflation in these economies declined to 3.5 percent in 2017. Despite a checkered history of managing inflation among many EMDEs,...
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On corporate borrowing, credit spreads and economic activity in emerging economies : an empirical investigation
Caballero, Julián; Fernández, Andrés; Park, Jongho - 2016
This paper studies the influence of external financial factors on economic activity in emerging economies (EMEs) motivated by a considerable increase in foreign financing by the corporate sector in EMEs since the early 2000s, mainly in the form of bond issuance. A quarterly external financial...
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Bond finance, bank credit, and aggregate fluctuations in an open economy
Chang, Roberto; Fernández, Andrés; Gulan, Adam - 2016
Corporate sectors in emerging markets have noticeably increased their reliance on foreign financing, presumably reflecting low global interest rates. The evidence also shows a rebalancing from bank loans towards bonds. To study these developments, this paper develops a dynamic open economy model...
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The second wave of global liquidity : why are firms acting like financial intermediaries?
Caballero, Julián; Panizza, Ugo; Powell, Andrew - 2016
Recent work suggests non-financial firms have acted like financial intermediaries particularly in emerging economies. This paper corroborates these findings but then asks "why?". The results indicate evidence for carry-trade activities, but they are focused on countries with higher levels of...
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Push and Pull : Emerging Risks in Frontier Economy Access to International Capital Markets
Haque, Tobias - 2017
Over the past decade, a large number of low- and lower-middle income 'frontier economies' have begun to access international private capital markets to meet fiscal financing needs. In this paper we seek to identify drivers of this trend, identify associated risks, and present policy implications...
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