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the thematic priorities that guided the "World We Want" campaign—a global stakeholder consultation conducted by the UN … discussed and shortlisted during a two-day workshop with academic and practitioners representing different world regions and …
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Using a dynamic panel data framework, we investigate the relationship between the two major forms of terrorism and foreign direct investment (FDI). We then analyze how these relationships are affected by foreign aid flows. The analysis focuses on 78 developing countries for 1984- 2008. Our...
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-permanent) membership on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on the subnational distribution of World Bank aid. Specifically, we … analyze whether World Bank projects are targeted to regions in which the head of state was born, or to regions dominated by … regions) receive significantly more World Bank projects and loan commitments during UNSC membership years compared to other …
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This paper presents an integrated overview of the literature linking institutions, financial development and economic growth. From the large body of research on institutional development, the paper first selects those contributions that make it possible to study the role of institutional...
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Recent calls for reform of the rules of origin in preferential trade arrangements such as the GSP as well as in many free trade agreements between developed and developing countries have focused almost exclusively on the need to relax the requirements of these rules. Without fundamentally...
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