Die WES-Sonderfragen für das zweite Quartal 2019 befassen sich mit dem Welthandel und der Globalisierung. Vor dem Hintergrund der laufenden Handelsstreitigkeiten zwischen den Vereinigten Staaten, China und der Europäischen Union wurden die Experten gefragt, welche Auswirkungen diese auf ihr...

Taxes have extraordinary roles in any country's economic development and policymaking. This study extends prior studies by investigating the impact of direct and indirect taxes on the economic development of 47 developed and 90 developing countries. All data about the variables involved in the...

The extension of the shelf life of food through processing makes food available beyond the shelf-life of fresh agricultural produce, which has implications for food and nutrition security. Food processing creates products for the specified nutritional needs of persons with special nutritional...

This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for...