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success by the European Recovery Program and the role of Bank in it. He commented on the world leadership role of the United …
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John J. McCloy, President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, spoke about the elusive matter of international economic recovery. He reviewed the policy environment for the European Recovery Program (Marshall Plan), economic integration, and international trade...
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growth rate of quality. Within any given product line, quality converges over time to the world frontier. Institutional …
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food voucher program for refugees. The estimations focus on the 2014 food vouchers administered by the World Food Programme …
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Preferential trade agreements today are more numerous and deeper than they were a quarter century ago. Do deep agreements promote countries' integration into global value chains? What are the economic mechanisms? How do countries choose their trade agreement partners? Would the undoing of deep...
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How do international economic agreements influence the investment patterns of firms from emerging economies? This paper studies the ways in which bilateral investment treaties and preferential trade agreements interact with geographic and cultural distance to influence firms' investment...
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Data from 919 household surveys conducted between 1960 and 2012, spanning 147 economies, are used to evaluate the relationship between rising life expectancy at birth and lifetime years of schooling for successive birth cohorts between 1905 and 1988. The study finds significant positive effects...
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poverty incidence, but more slowly for the upper bound. Either way, the developing world has a higher poverty incidence but is … making more progress against poverty than the developed world …
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the World," is an idiosyncratic stocktaking of the trajectory of economics from Adam Smith to contemporary times, with … the nature of knowledge engagement the World Bank Group is expected to have with the world …
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The estimated duration of forced displacement situations is a key parameter in defining an adequate response to the crisis. Where the crisis is short, humanitarian aid may suffice; when it lasts, development interventions are required. Using data from the United Nations High Commissioner for...
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