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Does foreign aid promote democracy? : aid, democracy, and instability from trade
Kangoye, Thierry - 2011
This study revisits the effect of aid on the quality of institutions and examines the effects of a major source of instability, namely terms-of-trade instability, on the quality of democracy. We take advantage of previous empirical findings which explain the role of aid in mitigating the adverse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009316262
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The impact of foreign direct investment on developing countries' terms of trade
Wacker, Konstantin - 2011
This paper first shows that important economic arguments in favor of the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis of falling terms of trade of developing countries have implicitly relied on the role of multinational corporations and foreign direct investment. As of yet, the relationship between the latter and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008821942
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Does connectivity reduce gender gaps in offfarm employment? : evidence from 12 low- and middle-income countries
Egger, Eva-Maria; Arslan, Aslıhan; Zucchini, Emanuele - 2021
jobs. We combine household survey data from 12 low- and middle-income countries in Asia, Latin America, and sub …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012416538
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Agricultural and rural transformations in Asian development : past trends and future challenges
Vos, Rob - 2018
countries of the region. In much of East and Southeast Asia, the Green Revolution brought a quantum leap in yields of staple … growth and urbanization, which in turn induced deeper agrarian change and food system transformations. In South Asia, these … insecurity in this part of Asia remain. These challenges remain in a context of relatively advanced urbanization, strongly …
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Structural transformation and international trade : evidence from the China shock
Nedoncelle, Clément; Wolfersberger, Julien - 2023
How does international trade affect structural transformation in developing countries? We use data on sectoral allocation of labour and value-added in 46 developing economies over the period 1995-2017 and exploit for identification plausibly exogenous variation in manufacturing imports from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014280617
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Marine mining and its potential implications for low- and middle-income countries
Löf, Anton; Ericsson, Magnus; Löf, Olof - 2022
After 50 years of optimistic predictions that marine mining will soon take off, it still remains to be seen if and when this will happen. In 2018 the total value of all marine mining, including both offshore mining and the so far non-existing deep-seabed mining, was estimated to be around US$35...
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Digital de-industrialization, global value chains, and structural transformation : empirical evidence from low- and middle-income countries
Banga, Karishma; Harbansh, Pankhury; Singh, Surendar - 2023
Digitalization and shifting patterns of globalization are fast changing the rules of the game for countries embarking on a path of industrialization. In this study, we empirically examine the impact of digitalization and global value chains on structural transformation using a cross-country...
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Aid's impact on social protection in low- and middle-income countries
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Santillán Hernández, Alma S. - 2023
-Saharan Africa (SSA), Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and Asia-Pacific (APAC) regions, paying particular attention to the role …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014335977
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Terms of trade and growth of resource economies : a tale of two countries
Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - 2011
The current paper demonstrates a dichotomy of the growth response to changes in the barter terms of trade, employing as case studies the two African countries, Botswana and Nigeria.Using distributed-lag analysis, the paper finds that the effect of terms of trade on output is positive and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008991418
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The long-run behaviour of the terms of trade between primary commodities and manufactures : a panel data approach
Otero, Jesús G.; Iregui-Bohórquez, Ana María - 2011
This study examines the Prebisch and Singer hypothesis using a panel of 24 commodity prices from 1900 to 2010. The modelling approach stems from the need to meet two key concerns: (1) the presence of cross-sectional dependence among commodity prices; and (2) the identification of potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009375557