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The Impact of Trade Openness on Institutions

Levchenko, Andrei A. - 2016

The impact of opening to trade on economic institutions is likely to be multifaceted and depend crucially on country … why international trade opening has the potential to transform institutions. What is needed to effect institutional change … distribution of political power as the determinant of how institutions react to trade opening. If "rent seekers" are in power when …

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Better policies from policy-selective aid?

Annen, Kurt; Knack, Stephen F. - 2019

This paper shows that the increased policy-selectivity of aid allocations observed in recent years provides recipient countries an incentive to improve policies. The paper estimates that a change in the World Banks Country Policy and Institutional Assessment policy index from 1.5 to 2 for a...

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Labor market impacts and responses : the economic consequences of a marine environmental disaster

Hoang Trung Xuan; Duong Trung Le; Nguyen, Ha; Nguyen … - 2019

This paper examines the labor market impacts of a large-scale marine environmental crisis caused by toxic chemical contamination in Vietnam's central coast in 2016. Combining labor force surveys with satellite data on fishing-boat detection, the analysis finds negative and heterogeneous impacts...

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Understanding the economic impacts of greenhouse gas mitigation policies on shipping : what is the state of the art of current modeling approaches?

Halim, Ronald A.; Smith, Tristan; Englert, Dominik - 2019

The International Maritime Organization's initial strategy on reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from ships stipulates that the international shipping sector should assess the impacts on states prior to adoption of the mitigation measures included in the strategy. This assessment should be...

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Migration and brain drain

Weltbank / Europe and Central Asia Region / Office of … - 2019

The share of immigrants in Western and Eastern Europe has increased rapidly over the past four decades.Today, one of every three immigrants in the world goes to Europe. Furthermore, although globally onlyone-third of migration takes place within regions, intraregional migration is especially...

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Financing firms in hibernation during the COVID-19 pandemic

Didier, Tatiana; Huneeus, Federico; Larraín, Mauricio; … - 2020

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has halted economic activity worldwide, hurting firms and pushing them toward bankruptcy. This paper provides a unified framework to organize the policy debate related to firm financing during the downturn, centered along four main points. First, the economic...

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Determinants of social distancing and economic activity during COVID-19 : a global view

Maloney, William F.; Taskin, Temel - 2020

The paper uses Google mobility data to identify the determinants of social distancing during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. The findings for the United States indicate that much of the decrease in mobility is voluntary, driven by the number of COVID-19 cases and proxying for greater awareness of...

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Transformational climate finance : donors' willingness to support deep and transformational greenhouse gas emissions reductions in lower-income countries

Strand, Jon - 2020

This paper uses simple analytical models to study high-income donor countries' willingness to pay to supply mitigation finance to low-income countries; how this depends on modality for finance supply; and how it changes as the global greenhouse gas mitigation agenda moves forward. The paper...

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Covid-19 and food protectionism : the impact of the pandemic and export restrictions on world food markets

Espitia, Alvaro; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - 2020

This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the initial shock due to the pandemic under the assumption that products that are more labor intensive in production are more affected through workers' morbidity and containment...

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COVID-19 mortality in rich and poor countries : a tale of two pandemics?

Schellekens, Philip; Sourrouille, Diego - 2020

COVID-19 can be described as a heat-seeking missile speeding toward the most vulnerable in society. That metaphor applies not just to the vulnerable in the rich world; the vulnerable in the rest of the world are not more immune. Yet, despite the extensive spread of the virus, the mortality toll...

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