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Zoellick, Robert B. - 2010

Robert B. Zoellick, President of the World Bank Group, charged that economics, and in particular development economics, must broaden the scope of the questions it asks - thereby also becoming more relevant to today's complex, multi-faceted problems. He discussed the following topics: (i) from...

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Merit, Discrimination, and Democratization : An Analysis of Promotion Patterns in Indonesia's Civil Service

World Bank Group - 2018

What effect does democratization have on meritocratic practices in the civil service? Democratization increases … servants' performance-enhancing characteristics, democratization increases discrimination. The author test this argument using … servants. The author exploits the exogenous timing of Indonesia's democratization in 1999, paired with an individual …

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Public access to information for development : a guide to the effective implementation of right to information laws

Lemieux, Victoria L. - 2016 - Online-Ausg.

Introduction to the guide -- Legal frameworks for RTI -- Considering the domains of RTI implementation -- Operating right to information systems -- Monitoring implementation and evaluating impact -- Conclusion

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Deliberative Democracy in India

Parthasarathy, Ramya - 2017

This paper traces the evolution of deliberative institutions in India to understand the role of deliberation in democratic life, as well as the ways in which deliberative bodies influence, and are influenced by, entrenched social inequality. The paper first unpacks the historical roots of Indian...

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The Nature of Trade and Growth Linkages

Didier, Tatiana - 2017

This paper shows new empirical regularities indicating that the structure of trade connections affects the trade-growth nexus. System generalized method of moments estimations indicate that key structural features associated with the composition of traded products and partners matter for growth....

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Openness, Specialization, and the External Vulnerability of Developing Countries

Barrot Araya, Luis-Diego - 2016

Deepening real and financial integration of developing countries into the world economy has prompted renewed interest in the contribution of external shocks to their macroeconomic fluctuations. This paper revisits the issue using four decades of annual data for a large sample of developing...

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Effects of Fiscal Policy Shocks in an Open Economy : Evidence from Canada

Belinga, Vincent - 2016

What is the impact of fiscal policy shocks on key macroeconomic variables in Canada? This question triggered renewed interest in the aftermath of the 2008-09 Great Recession. Indeed, as in many advanced economies, fiscal policy in Canada following the recession started with an expansionary phase...

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Managing Food Price Volatility in a Large Open Country : The Case of Wheat in India

Gouel, Christophe - 2016

India has pursued an active food security policy for many years, using a combination of trade policy interventions, public distribution of food staples, and assistance to farmers through minimum support prices defended by public stocks. This policy has been quite successful in stabilizing staple...

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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-specific circumstances. In the past decade an active body of research has studied this relationship. This framework makes is especially clear why international trade opening has...

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Inflation : concepts, evolution, and correlates

Ha, Jongrim; Ivanova, Anna; Ohnsorge, Franziska; Unsal, … - 2019

In the past four to five decades, inflation has fallen around the world, with median annual global consumer price inflation down from a peak of 16.6 percent in 1974 to 2.6 percent in 2017. This decline began in advanced economies in the mid-1980s and in emerging market and developing economies...

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