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China, India, and the Future of the World Economy : Fierce Competition or Shared Growth?
Dimaranan, Betina - 2016
Although both China and India are labor-abundant and dependant on manufactures, their export mixes are very different. Only one product-refined petroleum-appears in the top 25 products for both countries, and services exports are roughly twice as important for India as for China, which is much...
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Human Capital, Trade Liberalization, and Income Risk
Krebs, Tom - 2016
Using data from Mexico, the authors study empirically the link between trade policy and individual income risk and the extent to which this varies across workers of different human capital (education) levels. They use longitudinal income data on workers to estimate time-varying individual income...
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Asian Century or Multi-Polar Century?
Dollar, David - 2016
The rise of Asia is something of a myth. During 1990-2005 China accounted for 28 percent of global growth, measured at Purchasing Power Parity (PPP). India accounted for 9 percent. The rest of developing Asia, with nearly a billion people, accounted for only 7 percent, the same as Latin America....
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Services Globalization in an Age of Insecurity : Rethinking Trade Cooperation
Mattoo, Aaditya - 2018
Decades of services trade negotiations have produced a plethora of rules and commitments but limited real liberalization. One reason is a form of "negotiating tunnel vision," which has led to a focus on reciprocal market opening rather than on creating the regulatory preconditions for...
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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 …
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The Global Financial Crisis and Development Thinking
Rogers, F. Halsey - 2017
market-state balance, macroeconomic management, globalization, development financing, and public spending. On the one hand …
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Demographic Change and Development : A Global Typology
Ahmed, S. Amer - 2017
development policy priorities for countries in different stages of demographic transition, and opportunities through globalization …
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Trade in Developing East Asia : How it Has Changed and Why it Matters
Constantinescu, Ileana Cristina - 2018
may threaten the very model of labor intensive industrialization and a backlash against globalization that may reduce …
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Globalization and Firms'Financing Choices - Evidence from Emerging Economies
Grootaert, Christian - 2017
The authors investigate whether integration with global markets affects the financing choices of firms from East Asia and Latin America. Using firm-level data for the 1980s and 1990s, they study how leverage ratios, the structure of debt maturity, and sources of financing change when economies...
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Equity and Bond Flows to Asia and Latin America : The Role of Global and Country Factors
Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys - 2017
The authors investigate what has motivated the large portfolio flows to several developing countries in recent years. Using monthly data on U.S. capital flows to nine Latin American and nine Asian countries (instead of monthly reserves data), they analyze the behavior of bond andequity flows to...
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