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least developed countries (LDCs). Since the inception of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations in 2001, the WTO and …. Although these means have some positive impact on the economic development of LDCs, most of the LDCs will never feel …. However, this is inadequate; for the proposed ‘DDA-MDGs hybrid’, a super AfT is needed. The WTO, other development …
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restrictions in shaping capital flows at various stages of economic development. We find that, when accounting for the degree of …
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Natural resource revenues provide a valuable source to finance public investment in developing countries, which frequently face borrowing constraints and tax revenue mobilization problems. This paper develops a dynamic stochastic small open economy model to analyze the macroeconomic effects of...
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multilateral trade negotiations, the Doha Development Agenda. There are a number of reasons to make opposing arguments in developed …
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understanding of the process of development. While these issues are increasingly explored at the political and economic level, very … development. The findings draw on insights relevant for energy, water, forestry and land issues in Asia, Africa and Latin America …
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farmers to high value export markets. Conventional wisdom says that value chains undertaken for development purposes … chain approach and encourage donors and development agencies to be thoughtful and critical about measuring how farmers …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to take a close look at factors that influence the choice and quality of healthcare received by ailing and elderly people in rural north India. The author is primarily interested in seeing what role is played by the presence of sons in the family,...
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Economic performance in many emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) improved substantially over the past twenty years. The past decade was particularly good—for the first time EMDEs spent more time in expansion and had smaller downturns thanadvanced economies. In this paper we...
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The paper analyzes how the UNDP, the World Bank, and the IMF classify countries based on their level of development … alternative methodology is developed and used to construct classification systems using a variety of proxies for development …
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1986 marked the start of Vietnam?s ?Doi Moi? or period of renovation.  During this time, Vietnam began to liberalize their economy and began to open and globalize the country. For the first time the government encouraged foreign direct investment, and allowed the creation of non-state...
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