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An important recent World Trade Organization dispute settlement case for many developing countries concerned European … being used to cover losses associated with exports of sugar to the world market. Although in principle the economic …
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Since the 1995 inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO), developing countries have become some of the most …
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developing countries in the world economy and the emerging multi-polar growth setting. It evaluates the stability of the current …
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Using the universe of all externally issued bonds by corporates and sovereigns in emerging and developing economies during 2000-14, this paper analyzes various issuance trends, including the unprecedented post-crisis surge. The paper focuses on external issuance at the country-industry and...
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The nature of the microeconomic frictions that transform sudden stops in output collapses is not only of academic interest, but also crucial for the correct design of policy responses to prevent and address these episodes and the lack of evidence on this regard is an important shortcoming. This...
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Bridging the external financing gap has been an important factor in borrowing cgovernment's demand for World Bank loans …
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As the Eurozone crisis drags on, it is evident that a part of the problem lies in the architecture of debt and its liabilities within the Eurozone and, more generally, the European Union. This paper argues that a large part of the problem can be mitigated by permitting appropriately-structured...
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This paper examines historically the World Bank's twin features: lending to developing economies to achieve tangible … large aid flows. Section 2 sketches the historical evolution of what characterizes the World Bank: lending to developing …
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unique to many low-income countries: (1) borrowing from the World Bank finances a substantial fraction of public spending …, and (2) actual spending on World Bank-financed projects is typically spread out over several years following the original … approval of the project. These two features imply that fluctuations in spending on World Bank projects in a given year are in …
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Recent work on China's accession to the World Trade Organizations pays little attention to the wave of reforms in China …
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