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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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The Global Costs of Protectionism

Kutlina-Dimitrova, Zornitsa - 2017

This paper quantifies the wide-ranging costs of potential increases in worldwide barriers to trade in two scenarios. First, a coordinated global withdrawal of tariff commitments from all existing bilateral/regional trade agreements, as well as from unilateral preferential schemes coupled with an...

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Public Policy and Industrial Transformation in the Process of Development

Agénor, Pierre-Richard - 2017

This paper studies the role of public policy in promoting industrial transformation from an imitationbased, low-skill economy to an innovation-based, high-skill economy, where technological progress now occurs through the domestic invention of ideas. Industrial transformation is measured by...

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Mobile Money Services Development : The Cases of the Republic of Korea and Uganda

Gutiérrez, Eva - 2017

This study intends to increase understanding of how different types of mobile money services have developed in different environments. For this purpose, two countries were selected, the Republic of Korea and Uganda. From these study cases, some conclusions emerge. The development of mobile...

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Grain Price Spikes and Beggar-Thy-Neighbor Policy Responses : A Global Economywide Analysis

Jensen, Hans G. - 2017

When prices spike in international grain markets, national governments often reduce the extent to which that spike affects their domestic food markets. Those actions exacerbate the price spike and international welfare transfer associated with the terms of trade change. Several recent analyses...

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Import Protection, Business Cycles, and Exchange Rates : Evidence from the Great Recession

Bown, Chad P. - 2017

This research estimates the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on import protection policies over 1988:Q1-2010:Q4 for five industrialized economies -- the United States, European Union, Australia, Canada and South Korea. There is evidence of a strong countercyclical trade policy response in...

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Rigidities in Employment Protection and Exporting

Seker, Murat - 2017

A large number of studies have shown that contribution of exporters to economic growth and development is much higher than non-exporting firms. This evidence has lead governments to improve their trade policies in order to increase foreign exposure of firms. However, improvements in trade...

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Can Latin America Tap the Globalization Upside?

Torre, Augusto de la - 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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Is the Developing World Catching Up? Global Convergence and National Rising Dispersion

Bussolo, Maurizio - 2017

potential anti-globalization sentiment is the emergence of a global middle class: a group of consumers who demand access to, and …

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Are the Poor Protected from Budget Cuts? Theory and Evidence for Argentina

Ravallion, Martin - 2017

fiscal austerity - is an empirical question, which the author addresses using data from Argentina. Aggregate budget cuts in … Argentina in the 1980s and 1990s, typically brought proportionately greater cuts in social spending. "Non-social" spending was … to protect pro-poor social spending at such times. An externally financed work-fare scheme in Argentina was far better …

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