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A New Global Index of Infrastructure: Construction, Rankings and Applications

Donaubauer, Julian; Meyer, Birgit; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

We construct comprehensive and comparable indices on the most relevant components of economic infrastructure. An unobserved components model is employed to cover the largest possible number of developing and developed countries over the period 1990-2010. We map major findings from the new...

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Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - The MIT Press

Today's wide economic gap between the postindustrial countries of the West and the poorer countries of the third world is not new. Fifty years ago, the world economic order--two hundred years in the making--was already characterized by a vast difference in per capita income between rich and poor...

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Regional Public Goods: From Theory to Practice

Adhikari, Ramesh; Negroni, Mirka J.; Leino, Jessica; … - Inter-American Development Bank

This book is based on a conference entitled "Regional Public Goods and Regional Development Assistance", held in Washington, D.C. on November 6-7, 2002. It examines how the IDB and the ADB support the provision of regional public goods (RPGs) in Latin America and Asia, respectively. RPGs are...

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A report on the development of China¡¯s market economy 2005

Xiaoxi, LI - In: Frontiers of Economics in China 1 (2006) 3, pp. 311-371

This paper dicusses on the issue of the development of China s market economy from six aspects. (1) Basic Content and Conclusions on the development of China s market economy. (2) Further progress in building market-oriented economy in China. (3) Assessment of the degree of market economy...

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Trade and Wages

Bhagwati, Jagdish; Kosters, Marvin H. - American Enterprise Institute

A discussion of the perceived widening wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers that analyzes the implications of such a gap upon trade in the context of NAFTA.

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Financial constraints and international trade with endogenous mode of competition:

Bouët, Antoine; Vaubourg, Anne-Gaël - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015

resort to external funders to finance fixed export costs and investments in production capacities. We assume that sectors … allows firms to finance fixed export costs at a lower interest rate. On the other hand, financial health reduces the cost of … of trade. By increasing the cost of external finance, a financial shock increases the financial cost of exporting and …

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Closing Development Gaps: Challenges and Policy

H. Brooks, Douglas; Hasan, Rana; Lee, Jong-Wha; H. Son, Hyun - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2010

external trade and finance—including foreign direct investment, remittances, and aid—play a critical role. It is therefore …

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International Trade in Telecommunications

Cass, Ronald A.; Haring, John - American Enterprise Institute

The authors consider whether any special circumstances justify departure from free trade in telecommunications equipment.

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The Foreign Investment Debate

Beltz, Cynthia - American Enterprise Institute

This bookconcerns the world of transnational investing and the drift in U.S. policy towards conditional national treatment and the use of foreign investors as a trade tool.

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Reducing the Barriers to International Trade in Accounting Services

White, Lawrence J. - American Enterprise Institute

This studyrebuts much of the traditional rationale forregulatory restrictions and provides a list of principles of regulation that would serve as a model for global accounting practices.

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