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To what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa's slow economic growth over the past five decades been due to price and trade policies that discouraged production of agricultural relative to non-agricultural tradables? This paper uses a new set of estimates of policy induced distortions to relative...
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greening of world preferences and politics on the prospects for resource-abundant economics. While this development has the … one reform that would help energy exporters directly as well as the rest of the world. More typically, though, there is an …
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At the start of the twentieth century, Australia was arguably the highest-income country in the world. By 1950 it was … ranked third; by 1970 it was eighth; and by 1999 it was twenty-sixth, according to the World Bank Atlas method of measuring … GNP per capita (or twentieth using the World Bank's Purchasing Power Parity method)--not counting several rich countries …
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Economic growth and integration in Asia is rapidly increasing the global economic importance of the region. To the extent that this growth continues and is strongest in natural resource-poor Asian economies, it will add to global demand for imports of primary products, to the benefit of...
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from the North Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade, and boosting South–South trade. How will trade … of the world? In particular, what can be expected of developing Asia's intraregional trade and its trade with other … developing country regions? This paper addresses these questions by projecting a core baseline for the world economy from 2004 to …
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