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Is the Developing World Catching Up? Global Convergence and National Rising Dispersion
Bussolo, Maurizio - 2017
rest of the world. Second, this convergence process will be accompanied by a widening of income distribution in two …
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The Developing World is Poorer than We Thought, But No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty
Chen, Shaohua - 2017
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 … the early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746763
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Country Stakes in Climate Change Negotiations : Two Dimensions of Vulnerability
Buys, Piet - 2016
Using a comprehensive geo-referenced database of indicators relating to global change and energy, the paper assesses countries' likely attitudes with respect to international treaties that regulate carbon emissions. The authors distinguish between source and impact vulnerability and classify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747664
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Reducing Distortions to Agricultural Incentives : Progress, Pitfalls, and Prospects
Anderson, Kym - 2016
Most of the world's poorest people depend on farming for their livelihood. Earnings from farming in low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747885
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The World Trade Organization and Antidumping in Developing Countries
Bown, Chad P. - 2016
Since the 1995 inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO), developing countries have become some of the most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747971
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Doha Merchandise Trade Reform : What's at Stake for Developing Countries?
Anderson, Kym - 2016
liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748077
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Mobilization Effects of Multilateral Development Banks
Broccolini, Chiara - 2020
This study uses loan-level data on syndicated lending to a large sample of developing countries between 1993 and 2017 to estimate the mobilization effects of multilateral development banks (MDBs), that is, their ability to crowd-in capital from private creditors. Controlling for a large set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840715
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Emerging and Developing Economies : Ten Years after the Global Recession
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2020
Although emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) weathered the global recession a decade ago relatively well, they now appear less well placed to cope with the substantial downside risks facing the global economy. In many EMDEs, the room for monetary and fiscal policies to respond to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841602
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Toward Successful Development Policies : Insights from Research in Development Economics
Artuc, Erhan - 2020
What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World … Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842639
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Low Tax Jurisdictions and Preferential Regimes : Policy Gaps in Developing Economies
Leigh Pemberton, Jonathan - 2019
This paper reviews recent international initiatives and domestic policy developments aimed at helping countries to protect their tax base against erosion by individuals and companies that allocate assets to or route income via low tax jurisdictions. The paper highlights the benefits and...
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