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WTO and Growth : A Cross Country Event Study
Li, David D.; Wu, Changqi - 2004
Does accession to the WTO stimulate faster growth? The issue is not only of interest to the business and policy communities, but also a test case of several active lines of economics research on openness and growth. We conduct an event study of accessions to the WTO (GATT) of 74 economies. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014069478
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Financial development : a broader perspective
Reid, Richard - 2010
This paper seeks to add to the current debate about financial development and growth in the emerging world by looking … may be more fruitful for today's emerging world to concentrate more on addressing the needs of savers and borrowers in … each individual system. A major lesson for the emerging world from past financial development is that there are risks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008907303
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Dimensions of globalization and their effects on economic growth and human development index
De, Utpal Kumar; Pal, Manoranjan - 2011
The globalisation is supposed to reduce regional inequality, poverty and promote sustainability and improve overall human quality. Several studies have provided contradictory results in regard to the effect of globalisation, either in case of growth of GDP, or reduction in inequality and poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687635
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Pre- and post-crisis dynamics of financial globalisation for financial development in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A.; Moor, Lieven de; Tchamyou, Vanessa S. - 2015
This study unites two streams of research by simultaneously focusing on the impact of financial globalisation on financial development and pre- and post-crisis dynamics of the investigated relationship. The empirical evidence is based on 53 African countries for the period 2004-2011 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410623
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Financial Development : A Broader Perspective
Reid, Richard - 2011
This paper seeks to add to the current debate about financial development and growth in the emerging world by looking … may be more fruitful for today's emerging world to concentrate more on addressing the needs of savers and borrowers in … each individual system. A major lesson for the emerging world from past financial development is that there are risks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132042
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Promoting Poles of Clean Growth to Foster the Transition to a More Sustainable Economy
Hoffmann, Ulrich - 2015
For effective mitigation of the current severe economic crisis, developing countries can seize real opportunities for cleaner growth, including low-carbon growth. While complex and long, the process of greening economies can and should be gradually piloted towards selected “poles of clean...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039093
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Globalisation and Deglobalisation in Emerging Market Economies : Facts and Trends
Arslan, Yavuz - 2019
This paper discusses different facts and trends with regard to globalisation in emerging market economies (EMEs). It focuses primarily on the real (as opposed to financial) side of the economy over the last 2-3 decades, and highlights important similarities and differences across countries with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012893222
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Globalization, Convergence and Economic Growth : A Panel Data Analysis
Zohra, Allaoui - 2010
In this paper, we try to study globalisation between theories and facts by stressing the perverse effects of social, economic and political aspects. In other words we study the relation between globalisation and economic growth. Our empirical study is based on a panel model for an heterogeneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759489
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Global Trade and the Maritime Transport Revolution
Jacks, David S. - 2008
What is the role of transport improvements in globalization? We argue that the nineteenth century is the ideal testing ground for this question: freight rates fell on average by 50% while global trade increased 400% from 1870 to 1913. We estimate the first indices of bilateral freight rates for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771552
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Financial Globalisation Uncertainty/Instability Is Good for Financial Development
Asongu, Simplice - 2017
and Structure Database of the World Bank are employed, namely: financial depth (money supply and liquid liabilities … identified by the Financial Development and Structure Database of the World Bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970431