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toward the end of 2010). Yet, between 2000-04 and 2005-09 world cotton production increased 13 percent. This paper …
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This paper provides a review of the literature on the development impact of migration and remittances on origin countries and on destination countries in the South. International migration is an ever-growing phenomenon that has important development implications for both sending and receiving...
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economic management in the developed world and the economic models that guide it. The crisis has revealed major market failures … should largely reinforce the Post-Washington Consensus on development that has emerged over the past decade -- a world view …
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As evidence from rigorous impact evaluations grows in development, there have been more calls to complement impact evaluation analysis with cost analysis, so that policy makers can make investment decisions based on costs as well as impacts. This paper discusses important considerations for...
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(China)--and the recent reforms to them provide many potentially valuable lessons to East Asia's developing countries. All …
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This paper documents the major trends in financial development in Asia since the early 1990s and the spillovers to … firms. It compares Asia with advanced and emerging countries and uses both aggregate and disaggregate indicators. Financial … systems in Asia remain less developed than in advanced countries but more developed than in Eastern Europe and Latin America …
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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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This paper reviews the evidence on the importance of human capital for macro-economic development. Through the lens of a simple aggregate production function, human capital might increase output per capita by directly entering in the production process, incentivising the accumulation of...
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Microfinance is generally seen as a way to fix credit markets and unleash the productive capacities of poor people who are dependent on self-employment. The microfinance sector has grown quickly since the 1990s, paving the way for other forms of social enterprise and social investment. But...
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Major resource discoveries have transformed growth prospects for many low-income countries. However, the sharp downturn in commodity prices in recent years is affecting resource investment in these countries, and may delay the development of recent discoveries into production. This study...
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