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Growth of Global Corporate Debt : Main Facts and Policy Challenges
Abraham, Facundo - 2020
This paper surveys the literature to document the main stylized facts, risks, and policy challenges related to the expansion of global nonfinancial corporate debt after the 2008–09 global financial crisis. Nonfinancial corporate debt steadily increased after the crisis, especially in emerging...
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Does Rainfall Matter for Economic Growth? Evidence from Global Sub-National Data (1990-2014)
Damania, Richard - 2019
Much micro-econometric evidence suggests that precipitation has wide ranging impacts on vital economic indicators such as agricultural yields, human capital, and even conflict. And yet paradoxically most macro-econometric evidence (especially in the climate economy literature) finds that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865494
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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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Before and after the Global Financial Crisis : Evaluating the Caribbean's Synchronization with Global Engines of Growth
Kouame, Auguste Tano - 2017
In spite of the United States' recovery, most Caribbean nations are still struggling in the aftermath of the 2007?08 global financial crisis. This paper examines this slow growth recovery through the analysis of how the Caribbean's growth relates to that of key drivers of the global economy. The...
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Cities of Workers, Children, or Seniors? Age Structure and Economic Growth in a Global Cross-Section of Cities
Jedwab, Remi Camille - 2019
variety of historical and contemporary sources, it shows that there exists marked variation in the age structure of the world …
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States Diverge, Cities Converge : Drivers of Local Growth Catch-Up in India
Li, Yue - 2018
This paper takes a fresh look at growth convergence in India, combining insights from macroeconomics and urban economics. It departs from the existing literature in three ways. First, the paper assesses growth patterns across districts and across places below the district level instead of taking...
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Crime and Growth Convergence : Evidence from Mexico
Enamorado, Ted - 2017
Scholars have often argued that crime deters growth, but the empirical literature assessing such effect is scarce. By exploiting cross-municipality income and crime data for Mexico -- a country that experienced a high increase in crime rates over the past decade -- this study circumvents two of...
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Trade and Regional Inequality
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2017
world differently. Using a combination of static and dynamic panel data analysis, we find that while increases in trade per …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973335
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China, India, and the Future of the World Economy : Fierce Competition or Shared Growth?
Dimaranan, Betina - 2016
substantial welfare benefits for the world, and for China and India, and to act as a powerful offset to the terms-of-trade losses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747660