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Atlas of sustainable development goals 2017 : from World Development Indicators
Weltbank - 2017
Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the data -- Introduction -- The world by income, FY2017 -- The world by region … the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The Atlas primarily draws on World Development Indicators (WDI) - the World Bank … and scope of the SDGs, the editors have been selective, emphasizing issues considered important by experts in the World …
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The role of major emerging markets in global commodity demand
Baffes, John; Kabundi, Alain; Nagle, Peter; Ohnsorge, … - 2018
Rapid growth among the major emerging markets over the past 20 years has boosted global demand for commodities. The seven largest emerging markets accounted for almost all the increase in global consumption of metals, and two-thirds of the increase in energy consumption over this period. As...
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Going Global : Expanding Offshore Wind to Emerging Markets
Energy Sector Management Assistance Program - 2019
For many years, offshore wind was the expensive cousin of onshore wind with generation costs in the range of USD 150 to USD 200 per megawatt hour (MWh). This changed dramatically between 2016 and 2017 when a series of competitive tenders in Europe witnessed strike prices fall below USD 100/MWh,...
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Financial Globalization and Market Volatility : An Empirical Appraisal
Cordella, Tito - 2017
This paper computes a new financial globalization index for a large sample of countries for 1992-2016. Unlike other … measures, the financial globalization index corrects for the heteroscedasticity of global volatility. This leads to a downward … adjustment of financial globalization trends for developed, emerging, and frontier markets. The paper also shows that financial …
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Services globalization in an age of insecurity : rethinking trade cooperation
Mattoo, Aaditya - 2018
Decades of services trade negotiations have produced a plethora of rules and commitments but limited real liberalization. One reason is a form of "negotiating tunnel vision," which has led to a focus on reciprocal market opening rather than on creating the regulatory preconditions for...
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Globalization and Potential
Zoellick, Robert B. - 2008
Robert B. Zoellick, President the World Bank Group, addressed the Commencement about the theme of the challenge of … globalization …
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Global Trade Watch 2017 : Trade Defies Policy Uncertainty-Will It Last?
Constantinescu, Cristina - 2018
contributions to global trade growth have come from East Asian countries in the developing world and the Euro area in the developed … world. Merchandise trade, which in recent years has been less resilient than services trade, picked up, growing by 4 …
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Connecting to Compete 2018 : Trade Logistics in the Global Economy
Arvis, Jean-Francois - 2018
This is the sixth edition of Connecting to Compete, a report summarizing the findings from the new dataset for the Logistics Performance Index (LPI) and its component indicators. The 2018 LPI also provides expanded data on supply chain performance and constraints in more than 100 countries,...
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Development in a Time of Global Interdependence
Kim, Jim Yong - 2016
Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, spoke about the complex and vexing challenges which the world faces …
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Bhutan's Integration with the Global Economy : International Investment Treaties and Conventions
World Bank Group - 2019
. Bhutan can benefit from the experience of East Asia and other countries on how to break out of this low investment trap. FDI …
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