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The Global Costs of Protectionism
Kutlina-Dimitrova, Zornitsa - 2017
This paper quantifies the wide-ranging costs of potential increases in worldwide barriers to trade in two scenarios. First, a coordinated global withdrawal of tariff commitments from all existing bilateral/regional trade agreements, as well as from unilateral preferential schemes coupled with an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941321
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An Exploration of the Link between Development, Economic Growth, and Natural Risk
Hallegatte, S. - 2017
development, that risk taking should not be indiscriminately suppressed, and that the world is very likely to experience fewer but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974933
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Hiv/Aids and Social Capital in a Cross-Section of Countries
David, Antonio C. - 2017
This paper attempts to quantify the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on social capital with cross-country data. It … quality, social distance, and economic indicators using data from the World Values Survey. The results obtained indicate that … dimensions and highlight the empirical importance of an additional mechanism through which HIV/AIDS hinders the development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746827
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Trends and Socioeconomic Gradients in Adult Mortality Around the Developing World
de Walque, Damien - 2017
affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Mortality rates in the highest HIV-prevalence countries of southern Africa exceed those in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975898
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Governance Matters VIII : Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators, 1996-2008
Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - 2009
This paper reports on the 2009 update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project, covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2008: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism,...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746757
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746763
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The Regulation and Supervision of Banks Around the World - a New Database
Kee, Hiau Looi - 2017
regulatory, supervisory authorities, are now available to researchers, and policymakers around the world. The data cover such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746898
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Capital Control Liberalization and Stock Market Development
Belli, Paolo - 2017
The authors address two questions: What happens to stock market size, liquidity, volatility, and integration with world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746910
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Finance and Growth : Schumpeter Might Be Right
Drebentsov, Vladimir - 2017
Joseph Schumpeter argued in 1911 that the services provided by financial intermediaries - mobilizing savings, evaluating projects, managing risk, monitoring managers, and facilitating transactions -stimulate technological innovation and economic development. The authors present evidence that...
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