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Covid-19 and Food Protectionism : The Impact of the Pandemic and Export Restrictions on World Food Markets
Espitia, Alvaro - 2020
This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the … percent on average. Escalating export restrictions would multiply the initial shock by a factor of 3, with world food prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833536
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Stakeholder Dialogue as an Institutional Strategy for Sustainable Development in China : The Case of Community Environmental Roundtables
Wang, Hua - 2017
Stakeholder dialogue, as an alternative institutional strategy for environmentally and socially sustainable development, has received little attention from researchers and practitioners in developing countries such as China, even though the dialogue strategy can potentially lead public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975838
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Determinants of Social Distancing and Economic Activity During COVID-19 : A Global View
Maloney, William F. - 2020
The paper uses Google mobility data to identify the determinants of social distancing during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. The findings for the United States indicate that much of the decrease in mobility is voluntary, driven by the number of COVID-19 cases and proxying for greater awareness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834265
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Jobs' Amenability to Working from Home : Evidence from Skills Surveys for 53 Countries
Hatayama, Maho - 2020
The spread of COVID-19 and implementation of "social distancing" policies around the world have raised the question of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834268
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Winners and Losers from COVID-19 : Global Evidence from Google Search
Abay, Kibrom A. - 2020
As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across the world, researchers are attempting to quantify the economic fallout from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832318
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Covid-19 Mortality in Rich and Poor Countries : A Tale of Two Pandemics?
Schellekens, Philip - 2020
applies not just to the vulnerable in the rich world; the vulnerable in the rest of the world are not more immune. Yet … inequality creates the impression that the world is subjected to two different pandemics in terms of their impact. This paper … yet to run its course through the age distributions of the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832606
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Climate Change Impacts and Mitigation in the Developing World : An Integrated Assessment of the Agriculture and Forestry Sectors
Havlík, Petr - 2017
a world with high inequalities than in a more equal world. In the long run, impacts could be much stronger, with global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970677
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New Evidence on the Cyclicality of Fiscal Policy
Carneiro, Francisco - 2017
This paper presents new evidence on the patterns of cyclicality in the fiscal policy stance of developing and industrialized countries over a period of more than three decades covering 180 countries during 1980?2012. First, the paper considers issues of robustness in the choice of the proxy for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971636
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Ethiopia?S Growth Acceleration and How to Sustain It?Insights from a Cross-Country Regression Model
Moller, Lars Christian - 2017
Ethiopia has experienced a growth acceleration over the past decade on the back of an economic strategy emphasizing public infrastructure investment and supported by heterodox macro-financial policies. To analyze the country?s growth performance during 2000?13, the paper employs a neoclassical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971637
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On the Sustainable Development Goals and the Role of Islamic Finance
Ahmed, Habib - 2017
Millennium Development Goals set the stage for global support of ambitious development goals behind which the world must rally … mobilized if the world is to succeed in meeting its targets. Thus, the potential for Islamic finance to play a role in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971752