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-based trading order, prioritizing widespread regulatory liberalization to counteract the risks of global protectionism and …
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This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identifies the factors that have governed the pace of the transition from...
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heterogeneity in the degree of globalization over time and across countries and regions of the World, as well as within countries …The process of globalization is an international economic order which has led to the progressive integration of the … world economy through the pulling the barrier of trade and greater mobility of factors of production. In addition the …
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This paper juxtaposes changes over the last forty years in income growth and distribution with the mortality changes recorded at the aggregate level in about 170 countries and at the individual level in 26 countries with at least two demographic and health surveys covering the last twenty years....
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world if the determinants of health had continued developing over these decades as they did over 1960-80. The results … regard, the paper raises doubts about the way globalization has taken place and the way public policy oriented it. …
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We study the effects of violence towards children on early childhood development. We contribute to the literature providing estimates of the effects of violence (verbal and/or physical) that control for child-mother unobserved characteristics. We find that violence has negative effects on verbal...
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There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...
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We explore the relationship between import protection and the household distribution of income. We first develop a general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between tariffs, development level, and observed household...
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