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Low Tax Jurisdictions and Preferential Regimes : Policy Gaps in Developing Economies

Leigh Pemberton, Jonathan - 2019

This paper reviews recent international initiatives and domestic policy developments aimed at helping countries to protect their tax base against erosion by individuals and companies that allocate assets to or route income via low tax jurisdictions. The paper highlights the benefits and...

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Learning from Financial Crises

Lim, Jamus Jerome - 2017

This paper considers the question of whether international banks learn from their previous crisis experiences and reduce their lending to developing countries in the event of a financial crisis. The analysis combines a bank-level dataset of bank activity and ownership with country-level data on...

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Bank Regulation and the Network Paradigm : Policy Implications for Developing and Transition Economies

Honohan, Patrick - 2017

Current issues in banking policy range from the need to construct basic institutions and incentive structures in transition economies, to the challenges posed by the increasingly complex interactions involved in contemporary banking. The authors of this report outline the basic regulatory...

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Is the Developing World Catching Up? Global Convergence and National Rising Dispersion

Bussolo, Maurizio - 2017

rest of the world. Second, this convergence process will be accompanied by a widening of income distribution in two …

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The Developing World is Poorer than We Thought, But No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty

Chen, Shaohua - 2017

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what quot;povertyquot; means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more … the early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world …

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Country Stakes in Climate Change Negotiations : Two Dimensions of Vulnerability

Buys, Piet - 2016

Using a comprehensive geo-referenced database of indicators relating to global change and energy, the paper assesses countries' likely attitudes with respect to international treaties that regulate carbon emissions. The authors distinguish between source and impact vulnerability and classify...

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Reducing Distortions to Agricultural Incentives : Progress, Pitfalls, and Prospects

Anderson, Kym - 2016

Most of the world's poorest people depend on farming for their livelihood. Earnings from farming in low …

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The World Trade Organization and Antidumping in Developing Countries

Bown, Chad P. - 2016

Since the 1995 inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO), developing countries have become some of the most … protection to provide. First, we find evidence consistent with the theory of endogenous trade policy: larger industries that face …

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Doha Merchandise Trade Reform : What's at Stake for Developing Countries?

Anderson, Kym - 2016

liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …

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Mobilization Effects of Multilateral Development Banks

Broccolini, Chiara - 2020

This study uses loan-level data on syndicated lending to a large sample of developing countries between 1993 and 2017 to estimate the mobilization effects of multilateral development banks (MDBs), that is, their ability to crowd-in capital from private creditors. Controlling for a large set of...

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