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Monitoring Export Vulnerability to Changes in Growth Rates of Major Global Markets

Hollweg, Claire H. - 2017

commodities and differentiated products. This methodology is applied to six developing countries, one from each World Bank region …

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International Trade and Inclusive Growth : A Primer for Busy Policy Analysts

Lederman, Daniel - 2017

This note provides two analytical frameworks for understanding the role of trade in promoting inclusive growth in developing economies. A working definition of inclusive growth focuses on long-term, sustained growth associated with productivity growth and employment opportunities for broad...

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Anatomy and Impact of Export Promotion Agencies

Cruz, Marcio - 2018

Recent literature has shown evidence of positive contributions of export promotion agencies around the world in raising … their products. This paper describes the characteristics of export promotion agencies around the world, using a novel … database from the World Bank, in collaboration with the International Trade Center in Geneva, covering 2005-10. In addition, it …

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Trade Causes Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Brückner, Markus - 2017

In the 1990s the mainstream consensus was that trade causes growth. Subsequent research shed doubt on the consensus view, as evidence suggested that the identification of the effect of trade on growth was problematic in the existing literature. This paper contributes to this debate by focusing...

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Determinants of International Buyout Investments

Aldatmaz, Serdar - 2020

Using a comprehensive and proprietary data set on international private equity activity, this paper studies the determinants of buyout investments across 61 countries and 19 industries over 1990-2017. The study finds evidence that macroeconomic conditions, development of stock and credit...

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Incidence of the Digital Economy and Frictional Unemployment : International Evidence

Lederman, Daniel - 2020

This paper is the first to quantify the relationship between the incidence of the digital economy and long-term frictional unemployment across countries. The resulting evidence indicates that there is a robust, negative partial correlation between national unemployment rates and the incidence of...

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Stages of Development of Payment Systems : Leapfrogging Across Countries and Mena's Place in the World

Gevaudan, Clement - 2020

This paper studies the relationship between the level of economic development and the incidence of three forms of payments across countries, namely the incidence of bank accounts, digital payments, and mobile money accounts among the adult populations across countries. It presents simple...

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Financial Inclusion and Inclusive Growth : A Review of Recent Empirical Evidence

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2017

and poor adults. This paper provides an overview of financial inclusion around the world and reviews the recent empirical …

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The Microfinance Business Model : Enduring Subsidy and Modest Profit

Cull, Robert - 2017

Recent evidence suggests only modest social and economic impacts of microfinance. Favorable cost-benefit ratios then depend on low costs. This paper uses proprietary data on 1,335 microfinance institutions between 2005 and 2009, jointly serving 80.1 million borrowers, to calculate the costs of...

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How Does Long-Term Finance Affect Economic Volatility?

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2017

This paper examines how the ability to access long-term debt affects firm-level growth volatility. The analysis finds that firms in industries with stronger preference to use long-term finance relative to short-term finance experience lower growth volatility in countries with better-developed...

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