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Does Pollution Hinder Urban Competitiveness?
Kahn, Matthew Edwin - 2019
This paper surveys the recent literature exploring the causes of urban pollution in the developing world and the …
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Financial Globalization in Emerging Countries : Diversification vs. Offshoring
Ceballos, Francisco - 2017
transactions take place. The authors find that globalization via the diversification channel expanded throughout the world during …Financial globalization has gathered attention since the early 1990s because of its macro-financial implications and … growing importance. But financial globalization has taken shape via different forms over time. This paper examines two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975170
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Do Middle Classes Bring Institutional Reforms?
Loayza, Norman - 2017
The paper examines the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a new cross-country panel dataset on the distribution of income and expenditure. It uses an econometric methodology to gauge whether a larger middle class has a causal effect on policy and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975330
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Weaponomics : The Global Market for Assault Rifles
Killicoat, Phillip - 2016
This paper introduces the first effort to quantitatively document the small arms market by collating field reports and journalist accounts to produce a cross-country time-series price index of Kalashnikov assault rifles. A model of the small arms market is developed and empirically estimated to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747773
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Global Income Inequality : What it is and Why it Matters
Milanovic, Branko - 2016
inequality (inequality between citizens of the world). It discusses the relationship between globalization and global inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748065
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Trade, Global Value Chains and GDP Comovemement : An Empirical Investigation
de Soyres, Francois - 2019
This paper provides up-to-date characterization of the association between trade and GDP comovement -- also called the trade comovement slope -- for 150 countries from 1962 to 2011. The paper shows that trade is significantly linked to more GDP correlation, either directly through bilateral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857746
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Cities of Workers, Children, or Seniors? Age Structure and Economic Growth in a Global Cross-Section of Cities
Jedwab, Remi Camille - 2019
variety of historical and contemporary sources, it shows that there exists marked variation in the age structure of the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859463
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Determinants of Global Value Chain Participation : Cross-Country Evidence
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2020
The past decades witnessed big changes in international trade with the rise of global value chains. Some countries, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam, rode the tide, while other countries, many in the Africa region, faltered. This paper studies the determinants of participation in global value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838624
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Global Recessions
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2020
The world economy has experienced four global recessions over the past seven decades: in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2009 … internationally, with severe economic and financial disruptions in many countries around the world. The 2009 global recession, set off …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840241
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An Empirical Investigation of Trade Diversion and Global Value Chains
de Soyres, Francois - 2020
Origin as an implicit trade barrier for imports from the rest of the world. Global Value Chains are most relevant to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012845597