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Climate change and developing country interests : cases from the Zambezi River Basin

Arndt, Channing; Chinowsky, Paul; Fant, Charles; … - 2015

We consider the interplay of climate change impacts, global mitigation policies, and the interests of developing countries to 2050. Focusing on Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, we employ a structural approach to biophysical and economic modeling that incorporates climate uncertainty and allows...

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India's political economy responses to the global food price shock of 2007 - 08 : learning some lessons

Gulati, Ashok; Saini, Shweta - 2015

robust production and stock levels, rice exports surged when India freed up its exports in September 2011, making it a world …

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Global distribution of revenue loss from tax avoidance : re-estimation and country results

Cobham, Alex; Janský, Petr - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2017

International corporate tax is an important source of government revenue, especially in lower-income countries. An important recent study of the scale of this problem was carried out by International Monetary Fund researchers Ernesto Crivelli, Ruud De Mooij, and Michael Keen. We first...

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The role of gender in the extractives industries

McDonald, Catherine - 2017

In recognizing that women's participation and gender equity is a precondition for the achievement of acceptable development outcomes, extractives industry companies are increasingly making public commitments to integrating gender equality, inclusion, and women's economic empowerment into aspects...

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The copper sector, fiscal rules, and stabilization funds in Chile : scope and limits

Solimano, Andrés; Calderón Guajardo, Diego - 2017

Historically, Chile has been an economy dominated by mineral and agro-industrial products and subject to frequent … funds are regulated by a Fiscal Responsibility Law and complemented by a flexible exchange rate regime and an autonomous …

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Fiscal decentralization and the shadow economy

Janský, Petr; Palanský, Miroslav - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2016

the shadow economy. We hypothesize that decentralization can negatively or positively affect the size of the shadow … economy, increasing or decreasing its size, and that this effect can vary according to a country's level of development. We … the shadow economy. We find that in developing countries a higher level of decentralization is associated with an increase …

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Redistribution around the world : causes and consequences

Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka; Rönkkö, Risto - 2016

This paper re-examines the determinants and consequences of redistribution in light of improved data and methods relative to earlier literature. In particular, we use the latest version of the UNU-WIDER' Income Inequality Database to have the best available estimates of both pre- and...

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A brief history of the international monetary system since Bretton Woods

Ocampo Gaviria, José Antonio - 2016

This paper provides a historical background to contemporary debates on the international monetary system: their genesis, similarities, and differences of problems it has faced at different times. It looks sequentially at the design of the Bretton Woods system; the tensions it faced since the...

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On the spread of social protection systems

Egger, Peter; Radulescu, Doina; Strecker, Nora Margot - 2016

This paper undertakes an empirical analysis of the adoption of various components of social security systems as well as contribution rates. Apart from economic determinants of the adoption, the empirical analysis features determinants relating to countries' political systems and contagion. We...

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Inequality of opportunity in educational achievements : cross-country and intertemporal comparisons

Luongo, Patrizia - 2015

This paper evaluates fairness in educational achievements through the ordered pair (WEEOp, IEOp) whose components provide: (i) A measure of social welfare which accounts for the achievement of less-advantaged pupils and (ii) a synthetic index of inequality in educational opportunities....

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