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HDR 2005 - International cooperation at a crossroads: Aid, trade and security in an unequal world
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
This 2005 Human Development Report takes stock of human development, including progress towards the MDGs. Looking beyond statistics; it highlights the human costs of missed targets and broken promises. Extreme inequality between countries and within countries is identified as one of the main...
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North Korea : the last transition economy?
Koen, Vincent; Beom, Jinwoan - 2020
of trade with China became less friendly. Today, GDP in North Korea is reportedly lower than in 1990, notwithstanding a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203362
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An evaluation of the contractionary devaluation hypothesis
Bebczuk, Ricardo; Galindo, Arturo; Panizza, Ugo - 2006
Recent empirical and theoretical literature on the impact of real exchange rate devaluations on economic performance questions the traditional expansionary effect generated within standard Mundell-Fleming models. Contractionary devaluations may arise when firms face maturity or currency...
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An evaluation of the contractionary devaluation hypothesis
Bebczuk, Ricardo (contributor);  … - 2006
Recent empirical and theoretical literature on the impact of real exchange rate devaluations on economic performance questions the traditional expansionary effect generated within standard Mundell-Fleming models. Contractionary devaluations may arise when firms face maturity or currency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003775738
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A Caricature (Model) of the World Economy
Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2011
This paper provides a stylized model of the workings of a global economy where one of its key driving factors is economic agents' continuous struggle to find assets in which to park financial resources. This struggle naturally comes with euphoria and disappointments, as many of the "parking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132265
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Central Bank Transparency : Another Look
Siklos, Pierre L. - 2010
This paper extends the Dincer and Eichengreen (2007) index of central bank transparency. Improvements in transparency are notable in Central and Eastern Europe, while the index has shown much smaller rises in most other parts of the world. The pattern observed by Dincer and Eichengreen,...
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Orthodox Versus Heterodox (Minskyan) Perspectives of Financial Crises : Explosion in the 1990s Versus Implosion in the 2000s
2011
Orthodox and heterodox theories of financial crises are hereby compared from a theoretical viewpoint, with emphasis on their genesis. The former view (represented by the fourth generation models of Paul Krugman) reflects the neoclassical vision whereby turbulence is an exception; the latter...
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How to Construct Nationally Representative Firm Level Data from the ORBIS Global Database
Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - 2019
We construct representative firm-level longitudinal data for twenty-seven European countries using financial statements from the Orbis global database, providing a “how-to” guide on the construction. We validate our dataset by comparing its aggregate coverage to official statis- tics and...
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The Role of the IMF in Well-Performing Low-Income Countries
Radelet, Steven - 2012
The IMF began to play a prominent role in low-income countries in the late 1970s and 1980s when many countries faced overvalued exchange rates, growing budget deficits, high inflation, and low reserves. But times have changed, and many low-income countries no longer face these problems and do...
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Macroeconomic analysis of trade in some CEE countries
Josheski, Dushko; Lazarov, Darko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The research in this paper is focus on macroeconomic analysis of trade and other relevant indicator for real economy … such as government net debt, exchange rate, interest rate, and especially the correlation between trade and growth. Today … trade is challenge for economists of small developing countries. The mail goal in this paper is theoretical analysis of some …
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