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This paper attempts to quantify the impact of economic policy uncertainty on overall trade and trade linked to global value chains. Using new data on policy uncertainty for 18 countries and 24 years, it finds a statistically significant negative impact of policy uncertainty on overall trade...
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This study investigates empirically the determinants of labor shares focusing on the role of investment and exchange … country's investment is a significant factor driving changes in the labor share of income. This evidence is in line with the … theoretical mechanism for the role of investment presented by Lawrence (2015). While the authors consider several other factors …
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This document provides an investment plan for climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in Mali, developed with support of the …) framework for the CSA investment plan (CSAIP) is provided, showing how CSA outcomes relate to other MandE frameworks and other … can help spur investment and funding for CSA to help Mali deliver on its NDC and other national targets …
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investment may be discouraged by high levels of debt that put at risk future profits, as well as firm dimensions that may sharpen …This paper investigates empirically the linkages between corporate debt overhang and investment activity at the firm … the debt-investment link. Using balance sheet data from a broad set of emerging market and developing economy firms, the …
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") corruption and the rent-seeking incentives of lower level officials. It argues that a significant obstacle to investment … likely is investment …
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This paper investigates the state of low investment in Afghanistan by studying how investment decisions interact with … arrangements. Firms that participate in the formal financial sector are also subject to higher levels of risk and uncertainty. As …
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inclusive Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth. Modest investment rates despite attractive returns and low savings rates despite … inclusive growth, with special emphasis on the issues of savings and investment …
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This note assesses recent macroeconomic developments in Belarus and presents a medium-term economic outlook for 2013-2016 in three scenarios. These scenarios are sensitive to underlying assumptions and are provided to illustrate the main macroeconomic policy choices, available to Belarus. The...
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Although decelerating from 6.9 percent the previous year, economic growth in 2018 is estimated to remain robust at 6.5 percent. The slowdown in growth in 2018 has been partly due to a combination of the following domestic factors : (i) the severe floods that hit the country during July -...
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This economic report records the economic activities of Armenia for the year 2013. A steep decline in construction caused economic growth to weaken to 0.6 percent in the second quarter of 2013 (year-on-year) from 7.5 percent in the first quarter and 7.2 percent in 2012 as a whole. Developments...
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