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Chisik, Richard - 2017

international trade as well as trade and immigration policy. An aging society can see a welfare-reducing reduction in its share of … manufacturing output and this reduction is magnified by a decrease in trade costs (an increase in globalization). Immigration can …

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Financial Globalization in Emerging Economies : Much Ado About Nothing?

Levy-Yeyati, Eduardo Levy - 2014

Financial globalization, defined as global linkages through cross-border financial flows, has become increasingly relevant for emerging markets as they integrate financially with the rest of the world. This paper argues that, because of the way it is often measured, it has also led to the...

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Transformational Climate Finance : Donors'Willingness to Support Deep and Transformational Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions in Lower-Income Countries

Strand, Jon - 2020

This paper uses simple analytical models to study high-income donor countries' willingness to pay to supply mitigation finance to low-income countries; how this depends on modality for finance supply; and how it changes as the global greenhouse gas mitigation agenda moves forward. The paper...

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Study of the Distributional Performance of Piped Water Consumption Subsidies in 10 Developing Countries

Abramovsky, Laura Fernanda - 2020

This paper provides new evidence on how effectively piped water consumption subsidies are targeting poor households in 10 low- and middle-income countries around the world. The results suggest that, in these countries, existing tariff structures fall short of recovering the costs of service...

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How Does the World Bank Influence the Development Policy Priorities of Low-Income and Lower-Middle Income Countries?

Knack, Stephen - 2020

This study investigates the World Bank's use of lending and non-lending instruments to affect the policy priorities of developing countries. In a typical year, the World Bank lends more than $30 billion to its client countries. It also spends approximately $200 million on the provision of...

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The Relationship between Female Labor Force Participation and Violent Conflicts in South Asia

Robertson, Raymond - 2020

This paper explores the link between the prevalence of violent conflicts and extremely low female labor force participation rates in South Asia. The Labor Force Surveys from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, and Pakistan are merged with the Global Terrorism Database to estimate the relationship...

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Policy Challenges for Emerging and Developing Economies : Lessons from the Past Decade

Ruch, Franz Ulrich - 2020

The 2009 global recession demonstrated, once again, the importance of crisis prevention as well as the critical need for preserving policy room so that emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) can act when their economies are hit by shocks. And now, with the global growth outlook still...

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Short and Long-Run Labor Market Effects of Developing Country Exports : Evidence from Bangladesh

Robertson, Raymond - 2020

predictions from long-run, general-equilibrium neoclassical trade theory. As in other studies, this paper finds that the export …

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When Elephants Make Peace : The Impact of the China-U.S. Trade Agreement on Developing Countries

Freund, Caroline - 2020

Should the China-U.S. trade agreement prompt relief because it averts a damaging trade war or concern because selective … States and China would be better off under this "managed trade" agreement than if the trade war had escalated. However …-supplying neighbor, Mexico. Real incomes in the rest of world would decline by 0.16 percent and in China by 0.38 percent because of trade …

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Mobilization Effects of Multilateral Development Banks

Broccolini, Chiara - 2020

This study uses loan-level data on syndicated lending to a large sample of developing countries between 1993 and 2017 to estimate the mobilization effects of multilateral development banks (MDBs), that is, their ability to crowd-in capital from private creditors. Controlling for a large set of...

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