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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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The Growth of China and India in World Trade : Opportunity or Threat for Latin America and the Caribbean?

Olarreaga, Marcelo - 2016

This paper studies the relationship between the growth of China and India in world merchandise trade and Latin American … and Caribbean exports of non-fuel merchandise. In general, China's and to a large extent India's growing presence in world …

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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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Effects of Income Inequality on Aggregate Output

Brueckner, Markus - 2017

This paper estimates the effect of income inequality on real gross domestic product per capita using a panel of 104 countries during the period 1970?2010. The empirical analysis addresses endogeneity issues by using instrumental variables estimation and controlling for country and time fixed...

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Structural Reforms and Labor Market Outcomes : International Panel Data Evidence

Hollweg, Claire H. - 2017

collected from a variety of sources, including the World Bank World Development Indicators, the International Monetary Fund …

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Export Discoveries, Diversification and Barriers to Entry

Klinger, Bailey - 2017

The literature on the relationship between economic diversification and development has grown rapidly in recent years, partly due to the surprising finding that diversification rises with gross domestic product per capita up to a certain point. Export diversification along the extensive margin...

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