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Sustainable cooperation in global climate policy: Specific formulas and emission targets to build on Copenhagen and Cancun
Bosetti, Valentina; Frankel, Jeffrey - 2011
We offer a framework to assign quantitative allocations of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), across countries, one budget period at a time. Under the two-part plan: (i) China, India, and other developing countries accept targets at Business as Usual (BAU) in the coming budget period, the...
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Measuring the business environment for entrepreneurship in fragile states
Guglielmetti, Chiara - 2010
formulation with appropriate and relevant measurement of entrepreneurship and the business environment, the primary focus in this … paper is to scrutinize existing international indicators, in particular the World Bank's Doing Business (DB) indicators and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280212
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Driving Digital Transformation: Lessons from Seven Developing Countries
Ndulu, Benno; Stuart, Elizabeth; Dercon, Stefan; … - 2023
This book traces the experience of digital economic transformation in seven developing countries, providing insights for policymakers and practitioners in similar situations as well as lessons for outsiders trying to support government reform efforts more broadly. In one country, the prime...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014458165
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Accumulation and Productivity Growth in Industrializing Economies
Robertson, Peter E.; Landon-Lane, John S. - 2003
Historically, episodes of rapid growth are accompanied by significant structural change. In this paper we therefore aim to quantify the extent to which factor accumulation induces structural change and productivity growth in industrializing economies. To fix ideas we present an extension of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263207
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Gradients of the intergenerational transmission of health in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia; Rawlings, Samantha - 2009
This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269601
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Bank lending to emerging markets: Crossing the border
Lubin, David - 2002
critical caveat to this, however, is the recent experience of international banks operating in Argentina. While it is still far …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279029
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Impact of Food Safety Standards on Processed Food Exports from Developing Countries
Jongwanich, Juthathip - 2009
This paper examines the impact of food safety standards on processed food exports in developing countries. An intercountry cross-sectional econometric analysis of processed food exports in developing countries was undertaken. The Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standard (SPS) is incorporated into the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507266
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The Effects of Development on Migration: Theoretical Issues and New Empirical Evidence
Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - 1999
Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important … issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been … discussed which hint at the possibility that progress in development of less developed regions might lead to more migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262276
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Trade reforms, deforestation and industrial pollution in developing countries: One size does not fit all
Coxhead, Ian; Jayasuriya, Sisira - 2005
Many developing countries possess comparative advantage both in natural resources and in labor-intensive industries, and experience both industrial pollution and natural resource degradation. We present a model that incorporates these stylized facts together with key spatial features and...
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Intergenerational persistence in health in developing countries: The penalty of gender inequality?
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - 2010
This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in … terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and … region as well as across the distribution of maternal health. It uses comparable micro-data on as many as 2.24 million …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278543