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Arezki, Rabah - 2017

The 2007-2008 upsurge in agricultural commodity prices gave rise to widespread concern about investors causing a "global land rush" . Large land deals can provide opportunities for better access to capital, transfer of technology, and advances in productivity and employment generation. But they...

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Greening Global Value Chains : Innovation and the International Diffusion of Technologies and Knowledge

Glachant, Matthieu - 2017

Using novel data on patents, trade of equipment goods, and foreign direct investments and insights from the economic literature, the paper seeks to lay out the state of knowledge on the role of innovation and the diffusion of technologies in the greening of global value chains as well as some of...

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Trade in A'Green Growth'Development Strategy : Global Scale Issues and Challenges

de Melo, Jaime - 2017

playing field' would be ineffective and result in destructive conflicts in the World Trade Organization. Lack of progress at …

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Stakeholder Dialogue as an Institutional Strategy for Sustainable Development in China : The Case of Community Environmental Roundtables

Wang, Hua - 2017

Stakeholder dialogue, as an alternative institutional strategy for environmentally and socially sustainable development, has received little attention from researchers and practitioners in developing countries such as China, even though the dialogue strategy can potentially lead public...

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Green Subsidies and the WTO

Charnovitz, Steve - 2017

This paper provides a detailed explanation how the law of the World Trade Organization regulates environmental … relevant World Trade Organization rules and case law, including the recent Canada-Renewable Energy case. The paper also makes … specific recommendations for how World Trade Organization law can be improved and discusses the literature on reform proposals …

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Greening Global Value Chains : Some Implementation Challenges

Sinclair-Desgagné, Bernard - 2017

The paper aims to highlight some of the most important implementation issues associated with the greening of global value chains with special attention given to how public policies and business strategies can support each other in meeting the challenge, particularly in developing countries. This...

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The Global Information and Communications Technology Industry : Where Vietnam Fits in Global Value Chains

Sturgeon, Timothy - 2017

The information and communications technology sector has undergone a dynamic process of globalization and fragmentation …, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, World Trade Organization, Government of Vietnam, and Vietnamese industry …

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Demographic Change and Development : A Global Typology

Ahmed, S. Amer - 2017

of elderly in the world, and below-replacement fertility rates since at least the 1980s. The typology helps identify … development policy priorities for countries in different stages of demographic transition, and opportunities through globalization …

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Quantifying Uncertainties in Global Growth Forecasts

Ohnsorge, Franziska - 2017

This paper presents a procedure to construct an asymmetric fan chart of risks around global growth forecasts. The distribution of risks around global growth forecasts is estimated by weighting information extracted from option pricing and survey-based measures of risk factors of global growth....

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Globalization of Labor Markets and the Growth Prospects of Nations

Basu, Kaushik - 2017

The many and varied crises in the world economy since 2007 seem to have different origins and diverse manifestations …

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