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Are Driving Forces of Co2 Emissions Different Across Countries? : Insights from Identity and Econometric Analyses

Dong, Kangyin - 2018

contributed to limit global carbon dioxide emissions at the current level; otherwise, the world's current carbon dioxide emissions …

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Anatomy and Impact of Export Promotion Agencies

Cruz, Marcio - 2018

Recent literature has shown evidence of positive contributions of export promotion agencies around the world in raising … their products. This paper describes the characteristics of export promotion agencies around the world, using a novel … database from the World Bank, in collaboration with the International Trade Center in Geneva, covering 2005-10. In addition, it …

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Inequality and Economic Growth : The Role of Initial Income

Brueckner, Markus - 2018

-income countries, inequality has a significant negative effect on transitional growth. For the median country in the world that in 2015 …

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Anatomy of Credit-Less Recoveries

Corrado, Luisa - 2018

The recovery from the global crisis that erupted in 2007 shows that the decoupling between real and financial variables during the business cycle can lead to negative and long-lasting consequences for the economy. A key feature of the past global crisis in many countries is that the recovery in...

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Gendered Language

Jakiela, Pamela - 2018

Languages use different systems for classifying nouns. Gender languages assign many -- sometimes all -- nouns to distinct sex-based categories, masculine and feminine. Drawing on a broad range of historical and linguistic sources, this paper constructs a measure of the proportion of each...

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Overview and Meta-Analysis of Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Impact Evaluations

Andres, Luis Alberto - 2018

the world. It is based on 136 impact evaluations (randomized and quasi-experimental studies) that explore the effects of …

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International Data Flows and Privacy : The Conflict and its Resolution

Mattoo, Aaditya - 2018

The free flow of data across borders underpins today's globalized economy. But the flow of personal data outside the jurisdiction of national regulators also raises concerns about the protection of privacy. Addressing these legitimate concerns without undermining international integration is a...

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Trade Linkages between the Belt and Road Economies

Boffa, Mauro - 2018

This paper studies the production and trade linkages between a selected group of economies belonging to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). After defining a group of Belt and Road Economies, the paper uses three standard trade databases to analyze trade and production linkages among these...

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Labor Market Impacts and Responses : The Economic Consequences of a Marine Environmental Disaster

Hoang, Trung xuan - 2019

This paper examines the labor market impacts of a large-scale marine environmental crisis caused by toxic chemical contamination in Vietnam's central coast in 2016. Combining labor force surveys with satellite data on fishing-boat detection, the analysis finds negative and heterogeneous impacts...

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Voice and Punishment : A Global Survey Experiment on Tax Morale

Sjoberg, Fredrik Matias - 2019

An online survey experiment spanning 50 countries finds sizable improvements in tax morale when (a) the salience of anti-corruption efforts is increased and (b) citizens are allowed to voice their expenditure preferences to the government. These results hold very broadly across a uniquely large...

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