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Border adjustment mechanisms : elements for economic, legal, and political analysis

Bueb, Julien; Richieri Hanania, Lilian; Le Clézio, Alice - 2016

This paper examines, from a multidisciplinary perspective, plausible hypotheses for implementation of border carbon adjustment mechanisms, seen as a complement to strong environmental regulation. It highlights economic, legal, and political difficulties raised by border carbon adjustments. After...

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Structural transformation in the world economy : on the significance of developing countries

Nayyar, Deepak - 2016

future implications. The increased economic significance of developing countries, reflected in their share of world output …

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Institutional and policy adjustments to implement Free Trade Agreements with the European Union : a developing country perspective

Baltzer, Kenneth - 2015

Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) between the European Union (EU) and trade partners go far beyond mere elimination of tariffs to include such diverse issues as non-tariff barriers, competition legislation, investment protection, and more. Implementing such provisions requires deep institutional and...

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Environmental and climate finance in a new world : how past environmental aid allocation impacts future climate aid

Marcoux, Christopher; Parks, Bradley; Peratsakis, … - 2013

In this paper we update previous work that categorizes foreign aid projects in terms of their likely impact on the natural environment. We then document trends in the global distribution of environmental aid over time and show that environmental aid has increasingly focussed on global...

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Effects of foreign aid on income through international trade

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2019

This paper presents a review of recent studies that estimate the trade effects of foreign aid. It also provides new results obtained using panel data techniques to estimate the direct effects of aid on international trade, accounting for countries' participation in free trade agreements, and the...

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Global poverty, aid, and middle-income countries : are the country classifications moribund or is global poverty in the process of 'nationalizing'?

Sumner, Andrew - 2013

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … first is that the thresholds used to classify countries by the World Bank and extensively used by aid agencies, albeit with …

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The global consumption and income project : an introduction and preliminary findings

Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015

unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark … consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …

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The international fiscal implications of global poverty reduction and global public goods provision

Fitzgerald, Edmund V. K. - 2013

The mixed record on the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets and the focus on global public goods in post-MDG debates questions the future of traditional development co-operation (official development assistance, ODA). Meanwhile, international financial crisis and fiscal retrenchment...

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COVID-19 and global poverty : are LDCs being left behind?

Valensisi, Giovanni - 2020

This paper provides a preliminary assessment of COVID-19's impact on global poverty in the light of the IMF's April 2020 growth forecasts. The analysis shows that the pandemic will have dramatic consequences, eroding many of the gains recorded over the last decade in terms of poverty reduction....

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Data, global development, and COVID-19 : lessons and consequences

Naudé, Wim; Vinuesa, Ricardo - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic holds at least seven lessons for the relationship between data-driven decision making, the use of artificial intelligence, and development. These are that (1) in a global crisis, the shifting value of data creates policy pitfalls; (2) predictions of crises and how they play...

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