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Can Latin America Tap the Globalization Upside?
de la Torre, Augusto - 2017
This paper discusses the theoretical arguments in favor of and against economic globalization and, with a view to … ascertaining whether Latin America may be able to capture the globalization upside, examines the trends and salient features of … Latin America's globalization as compared with that of Southeast Asia. The paper focuses on trade and financial integration …
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Gender, Ethnicity and Cumulative Disadvantage in Education : Evidence from Latin American and African Censuses
Taş, Emcet O. - 2017
This paper studies the impact of gender and ethnicity on educational outcomes using cross-country evidence from Bolivia, Mexico, Peru, Senegal, and Sierra Leone. It uses the Minnesota Population Center's Integrated Public Use Microdata Series-International database, which includes...
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Economic Integration Across Latin America : Evidence from Labor Markets, 1990-2013
Lederman, Daniel - 2017
Combining macroeconomic and microeconomic data and three indicators of international market integration, this paper assesses the degree to which Latin American labor markets are integrated. The results suggest that relative to East Asia, Latin American labor markets are somewhat more integrated,...
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Globalization and Firms'Financing Choices - Evidence from Emerging Economies
Grootaert, Christian - 2017
The authors investigate whether integration with global markets affects the financing choices of firms from East Asia and Latin America. Using firm-level data for the 1980s and 1990s, they study how leverage ratios, the structure of debt maturity, and sources of financing change when economies...
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Equity and Bond Flows to Asia and Latin America : The Role of Global and Country Factors
Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys - 2017
The authors investigate what has motivated the large portfolio flows to several developing countries in recent years. Using monthly data on U.S. capital flows to nine Latin American and nine Asian countries (instead of monthly reserves data), they analyze the behavior of bond andequity flows to...
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Documenting Myanmar's Social Transformation : Insights from Six Rounds of Research on Livelihoods and Social Change in Rural Communities
Pursch, Samuel James - 2017
provide unique insights into the ways in which broad processes of democratization and globalization -- put into effect …
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Stationary Bandits, State Capacity, and the Malthusian Transition : The Lasting Impact of the Taiping Rebellion
Xu, Lixin Colin - 2018
The Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) in China was the deadliest civil war in history. This paper provides evidence that this cataclysmic event significantly shaped the Malthusian transition and long-term development that followed, especially in areas where the experiences that stemmed from the...
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All that Glitters is Not Gold : Polarization Amid Poverty Reduction in Ghana
Clementi, Fabio - 2017
Ghana is an exceptional case in the Sub-Saharan Africa landscape. Together with a handful of other countries, Ghana offers the opportunity to analyze the distributional changes in the past two decades, since four comparable household surveys are available. In addition, different from many other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968682
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The Creative Wealth of Nations : How the Performing Arts Can Advance Development and Human Progress
Kabanda, Patrick - 2017
Cultural activities are increasingly noted as drivers of meaningful development. But they have yet to gain a prominent place in the architecture of development strategy. The performing arts, discussed here, exhibit direct effects on social progress and economic growth through trade in music,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972468
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Introducing Behavioral Change in Transportation into Energy/Economy/Environment Models
Schafer, Andreas - 2017
Transportation is vital to economic and social development, but at the same time generates undesired consequences on local, regional, and global scales. One of the largest challenges is the mitigation of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions, to which this sector already contributes...
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