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How does globalization affect social cohesion?
Vrolijk, Kasper - 2022
This paper explores the effect of globalization on social cohesion outcomes and reviews its underlying mechanisms. I offer a framework to review the literature, in which I identify worker labour earnings, household expenditures and firm productivity as main channels through which globalization...
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The Global Wood Furniture Value Chain : What Prospects for Upgrading by Developing Countries
Kaplinsky, Raphael; Memedovic, Olga; Morris, Mike; … - 2008
Because of its resource and labour intensity, the wood furniture sector presents an opportunity for developing countries and their firms to participate effectively in the global economy. This paper begins with a brief description of the global wood furniture industry and highlights the...
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ICT for sustainable development : global comparative evidence of globalisation thresholds
Nchofoung, Tii Njivukuh; Asongu, Simplice - 2021
The objectives of this paper are to investigate the effect of ICT on sustainable development and the mechanisms through … dependent variable. The results show that ICT has a positive and significant effect on sustainable development. Whereas overall … net effects are positive, the findings are contingent on the choice of the ICT measurement, the geographical location of …
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Participating to compete : do small firms in developing countries benefit from global value chains?
Boffa, Mauro; Jansen, Marion; Solleder, Olga - In: Economies : open access journal 9 (2021) 1/12, pp. 1-25
Standard trade theory suggests that the profile of exporting firms is characterized by large firms which dominate domestic productivity distribution. Large manufacturing multinationals have increased their productivity by participating, creating and shaping global production networks. In recent...
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Medical tourism : revenue generation or international transfer of healthcare problems?
Vijaya, Ramya Mahadevan - In: Journal of economic issues : jei 44 (2010) 1, pp. 53-69
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The rise and fall of export-led growth
Palley, Thomas I. - 2011
This paper traces the rise of export-led growth as a development paradigm and argues that it is exhausted owing to changed conditions in emerging market (EM) and developed economies. The global economy needs a recalibration that facilitates a new paradigm of domestic demand-led growth....
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In Defense of World Bank and IMF Conditionality in Structural Adjustment Programs
Muuka, Gerry Nkombo - 2011
It is an open secret that the two Bretton Woods Institutions (BWIs) – the World Bank and the IMF – are the main architects of structural adjustment programs (SAPs) that are prevalent in much of the developing world. The very nature of "conditionality" – the policy strings that the BWIs...
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Revisiting U. S. Public and Private Debt in April 2011
Blain, Bob - 2011
U.S. public and private debt is traced to the decision of the First Congress in 1790 to borrow the new nation's money supply. This established a debt imperative that requires debt to grow by compounding interest. When debt fails to grow enough, the economy goes into various degrees of recession....
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Pandemic Policy in Developing Countries : Recommendations for India
Rajagopalan, Shruti - 2020
Each country faces unique challenges in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. India's relatively low healthcare resources, limited state capacity, and large population of poor people, many of whom are already burdened with other health issues, pose challenges on every dimension.The present policy of...
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