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evidence shows that some countries have pursued very active exchange rate policies to promote the export sector and enhance …
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Learning from experience to improve future infrastructure public-private partnerships is a focal issue for policy makers, financiers, implementers, and private sector stakeholders. An extensive body of case studies and "lessons learned" aims to improve the likelihood of success and attempts to...
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The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what quot;povertyquot; means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than we thought. Yet the data also provide robust...
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This paper studies the question of whether exchange rate policy affects the impact of remittances on economic growth in recipient countries. The paper utilizes a comprehensive data set that comprises annual observations for 135 developing and transition countries, spanning 1970-2007. The data...
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46 countries over the period 1996-2012, and first finds evidence that the elasticity of manufacturing export volumes to …
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of export volumes as well as export surges, that is, the periods of rapid sustained export growth. It asks whether the … determinants of export growth rates and export surges differ between merchandise, traditional services, and modern services and … whether developing countries are different. It confirm the importance of the real exchange rate for export growth. The paper …
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This paper studies how a positive export shock -- the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of … exogenous to Bangladesh, the authors instrument export demand with OECD imports to ensure identification. The paper compares … predictions from long-run, general-equilibrium neoclassical trade theory. As in other studies, this paper finds that the export …
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Is the variation in bilateral trade flows across countries primarily due to differences in the number of exporting firms (the extensive margin) or in the average size of an exporter (the intensive margin)? And how does this affect the estimation and quantitative implications of the Melitz (2003)...
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in developing countries. Descriptive statistics confirm higher export participation (but not intensity) for firms in core … and agglomeration factors have a significant impact on export participation. Specifically, customs clearance and … electricity quality matter for export participation for manufacturing firms. Although localization economies and export spillovers …
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The authors estimate the impact of aggregate indicators of "soft" and "hard" infrastructure on the export performance … trade facilitation reforms do improve the export performance of developing countries. This is particularly true with …
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