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International R&D Transfer and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from Panel Study Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis

Wang, Miao; Wong, M. C. Sunny - In: World Development 40 (2012) 10, pp. 1982-1998

(FDI) on domestic technical efficiency using stochastic frontier analysis. Unbalanced panel results from a 77-country … sample over 1986–2007 show that FDI- and imports-transferred foreign R&D have a significant impact on domestic country …’s technical efficiency. Furthermore, we observe a complementarity between FDI-transferred R&D and domestic human capital. In other …

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Co-location and Spatial Wage Spillovers in China: The Role of Foreign Ownership and Trade

Elliott, Robert J.R.; Zhou, Ying - In: World Development 66 (2015) C, pp. 629-644

This paper examines how wages in China are influenced by the interaction and co-location of firms across geographical space. Specifically, and with an emphasis on globally engaged firms and China’s uneven growth across regions we use a spatial econometric approach to estimate the direct and...

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Estimating the Short-Run Poverty Impacts of the 2010–11 Surge in Food Prices

Ivanic, Maros; Martin, Will; Zaman, Hassan - In: World Development 40 (2012) 11, pp. 2302-2317

Global food prices increased sharply between June and December 2010. This paper assesses the impact of price changes for 38 agricultural commodities on poverty using detailed data on patterns of production and consumption in 28 countries. We find considerable heterogeneity in the impacts, but...

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Cross-Country Heterogeneity and the Trade-Income Relationship

Herzer, Dierk - In: World Development 44 (2013) C, pp. 194-211

We examine the relationship between trade and income using heterogeneous panel cointegration techniques to account for … the potential cross-country heterogeneity in the effects of trade. Our main results are: (i) trade has, on average, a … of trade on income across countries, and (iii) the effect of trade on income tends to be greater in countries with higher …

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Institutions, Infrastructure, and Trade

Francois, Joseph; Manchin, Miriam - In: World Development 46 (2013) C, pp. 165-175

We work with a panel of bilateral trade, exploring the influence of infrastructure and institutional quality on … patterns of trade with a Poisson estimator, extended with the Baier and Berstrand method for multilateral resistance and … accounting for firm heterogeneity and selection. Trade depends on institutional quality and exporter and importer access to well …

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Trade Contraction and Employment in India and South Africa during the Global Crisis

Kucera, David; Roncolato, Leanne; von Uexkull, Erik - In: World Development 40 (2012) 6, pp. 1122-1134

The paper estimates the effects of the 2008–09 trade contraction on employment in India and South Africa, using social … declines as a result of trade contraction with the European Union and the United States. A large share of these declines …

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Revenue Substitution? How Foreign Aid Inflows Moderate the Effect of Bilateral Trade Pressures on Labor Rights

Lim, Sijeong; Mosley, Layna; Prakash, Aseem - In: World Development 67 (2015) C, pp. 295-309

This paper investigates how foreign aid inflows moderate bilateral trade-based pressures on the exporting countries … trade-based pressures are associated with improved labor rights. As aid levels rise, however, the effect loses significance. …

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Are Rural Youth in Ethiopia Abandoning Agriculture?

Bezu, Sosina; Holden, Stein - In: World Development 64 (2014) C, pp. 259-272

This study examines current land access and livelihood choices of rural youth in Southern Ethiopia. We found that youth in rural south have limited access to agricultural land because of land scarcity and land market restrictions. We hypothesize that this forces the youth to abandon agriculture...

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Going Back Home: Internal Return Migration in Rural Tanzania

Hirvonen, Kalle; Lilleør, Helene Bie - In: World Development 70 (2015) C, pp. 186-202

While reasons for out-migration are relatively well understood, little is known about why people return to their rural … the patterns and determinants of return migration, and we find that return is largely associated with unsuccessful … migration. For men, return is linked to poor job-market outcomes at the migration destination, and for women, to the ending of …

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Rural–Urban Migration, Household Vulnerability, and Welfare in Vietnam

Nguyen, Loc Duc; Raabe, Katharina; Grote, Ulrike - In: World Development 71 (2015) C, pp. 79-93

This paper investigates the interaction of migration, vulnerability to poverty, and welfare of rural households in … quality of life?, and (3) What is the effect of migration on rural household’s welfare and vulnerability to poverty? The … migrants from 2010. The empirical evidence from a probit model shows that migration, especially migration for employment, is a …

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