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place the preconditions for future market opening. The second proposal is for a new approach to negotiations in the World …-in applied levels of protection and pre-committing to reform of policies affecting foreign direct investment and international … least lay the basis for a forward-looking program of international cooperation along the proposed lines …
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This paper re-examines the development implications of international migration focusing on two issues: how the costs …
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as a result affect world prices for the specific products concerned. Market failures and market structures (market power … along the value chain) also affect supply. This paper briefly reviews a number of factors that may distort international … absence of policy -- generate international spillovers that call for the negotiation of international policy disciplines …
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experiment in the Philippines testing the impact of unilaterally facilitating international labor migration. The most intensive … treatment doubled the rate of job offers but had no identifiable effect on international labor migration. Even the highest …
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East and Southeast Asia face major demographic changes over the next few decades as many countries' labor forces will start to decline, while others will experience higher labor force growth as populations and participation rates increase. A well-managed labor migration strategy presents itself...
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Labor markets are increasingly global. Overseas work can enrich households but also split them geographically, with ambiguous net effects on decisions about work, investment, and education. These net effects, and their mechanisms, are poorly understood. This study investigates a policy...
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being conducted by the World Bank's Development Research Group at the time of writing this paper. The availability of the …
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The authors analyze recent efforts at international cooperation to limit illegal migration, particularly through the … avenue of international migration, they are an inefficient instrument to induce cooperation on illegal migration. On the one …
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International negotiations on climate change have been dogged by mutual recriminations between rich and poor countries … industrialized and developing countries. To overcome these "narrative," "adding-up," and "new world" problems, respectively, this …
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Although water variability has already been observed across river basins, climate change is predicted to increase variability. Such environmental changes may aggravate political tensions, especially in regions that are not equipped with an appropriate institutional apparatus. Increased...
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