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Small African Economies in a More Uncertain Global Trade Environment : The Potential Impact of Post-Agoa Scenarios for Lesotho
Maliszewska, Maryla - 2019
This paper provides a forward-looking view of trade and its relevance for Lesotho?s medium- and long-term development. It does this through computable general equilibrium analysis of potential impacts based on specific trade-related scenarios. The scenarios include the potential loss of American...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869822
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Estimation of Climate Change Damage Functions for 140 Regions in the Gtap9 Database
Roson, Roberto - 2017
Climate change damage (or, more correctly, impact) functions relate variations in temperature (or other climate variables) to economic impacts in various dimensions, and are at the basis of quantitative modeling exercises for the assessment of climate change policies. This document provides a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968733
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Openness, Specialization, and the External Vulnerability of Developing Countries
Barrot, Luis-Diego - 2017
Deepening real and financial integration of developing countries into the world economy has prompted renewed interest in the contribution of external shocks to their macroeconomic fluctuations. This paper revisits the issue using four decades of annual data for a large sample of developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968744
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Trade Costs in the Developing World : 1995 - 2010
Arvis, Jean-François - 2017
The authors use newly collected data on trade and production in 178 countries to infer estimates of trade costs in agriculture and manufactured goods for the 1995-2010 period. The data show that trade costs are strongly declining in per capita income. Moreover, the rate of change of trade costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974712
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Developing Countries and Monitoring WTO Commitments in Response to the Global Economic Crisis
Bown, Chad P. - 2017
This paper examines the role of the public sector in providing additional information to exporters in developing countries as they seek to monitor and keep open their access to foreign markets by using the rules of the WTO system. It highlights new information generation and dissemination...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976545
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Distance and Regionalization of Trade for Low-Income Countries
Carrere, Celine - 2017
The "distance effect" measuring the elasticity of trade flows to distance has been rising since the early 1970s in a host of studies based on the gravity model, leading observers to call it the "distance puzzle" . This paper reviews the evidence and explanations. Using an extensive data set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976682
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Gender, Ethnicity and Cumulative Disadvantage in Education : Evidence from Latin American and African Censuses
Taş, Emcet O. - 2017
This paper studies the impact of gender and ethnicity on educational outcomes using cross-country evidence from Bolivia, Mexico, Peru, Senegal, and Sierra Leone. It uses the Minnesota Population Center's Integrated Public Use Microdata Series-International database, which includes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973644
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The Effects of Pollution and Business Environment on Firm Productivity in Africa
Soppelsa, Maria Edisa - 2019
This paper explores the links between city competitiveness and air pollution and the business environment. Because … increasing pollution levels and the effects of agglomeration economies. The analysis finds two interesting results. First, the … negative association between air pollution and firm performance can be seen at lower than expected levels of pollution. Second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871420
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The Belt and Road Initiative : Economic, Poverty and Environmental Impacts
Maliszewska, Maryla - 2019
China's Belt and Road Initiative aims to improve connectivity between China and more than 70 countries through infrastructure investment and regional cooperation. The initiative has the potential to accelerate significantly the rate of economic integration and development in the region, as trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012888866
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Environment and Development : Penalized Non-Parametric Inference of Global Trends in Deforestation, Pollution and Carbon
Andree, Bo Pieter Johannes - 2019
deforestation, pollution, and carbon intensities. Per capita emissions follow a $J$-curve. Specifically, poverty reduction occurs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891714