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Multilateral development banks and global public policy networks: Speculations for the next century

Rischard, Jean-François - In: EIB Papers 3 (1998) 2, pp. 82-88

- the advent of a radically different world economy, and the explosion of the world's population. As these forces are … unleashed, the world's nation-states - weakened by their increasingly unhelpful territorial and hierarchical constructs - will …

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Only a mid-life crisis? The future for IFIs in an integrated world

Hurst, Christopher; Perée, Eric - In: EIB Papers 3 (1998) 2, pp. 10-29

in all of its member countries, not only in its poorer members. It does lend throughout the world, but most of its … lending is within the European Union (EU). A significant share is within some of the world's wealthiest countries. There is …

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Productivity growth prospects and the new economy in historical perspective

David, Paul - In: EIB Papers 6 (2001) 1, pp. 41-61

Today there are many questions about the nature and the future of the so-called 'new economy'. The term 'new economy' itself has acquired a variety of quite different connotations. For many commentators, it continues to refer primarily to the altered macroeconomic performance of the US economy...

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Stock markets, banks, and economic development: Theory and evidence

Beck, Thorsten - In: EIB Papers 8 (2003) 1, pp. 37-54

This paper discusses the different functions that capital markets and banks have in economic development, and it reviews the debate about marketbased vs. bank-based financial systems. Using data for a sample of 40 countries over the period 1975-98, the paper then shows that variation in both...

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The drivers of oil prices: The usefulness and limitations of non-structural models, supply-demand frameworks, and informal approaches

Fattouh, Bassam - In: EIB Papers 12 (2007) 1, pp. 128-156

oil prices. Although all approaches provide useful insights on how the world oil market functions, they suffer from major …

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Component trade and China's global economic integration

Li, Kunwang; Song, Ligang; Zhao, Xingjun - 2008

China's engagement in the so-called international fragmentation of production - namely cross-border dispersion of component production/assembly within vertically integrated manufacturing industries - has become an increasingly important form of its economic integration into the regional as well...

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Globalization and health: Impact pathways and recent evidence

Cornia, Giovanni Andrea; Rosignoli, Stefano; Tiberti, Luca - 2008

world if the determinants of health had continued developing over these decades as they did over 1960-80. The results …

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Institutions and business cycles

Altug, Sumru; Emin, Mustafa; Neyapti, Bilin - 2011

This paper investigates the relationship between the main business cycles features and the institutional and structural characteristics of countries in which they are observed. We derive the business cycle characteristics of the individual countries using the nonparametric Harding-Pagan...

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Cyclical dynamics of industrial production and employment: Markov chain-based estimates and test

Altuğ, Sumru; Tan, Barış; Gencer, Gözde - 2011

This paper characterizes the business cycle as a recurring Markov chain for a broad set of developed and developing countries. The objective is to understand differences in cyclical phenomena across a broad range of countries based on the behavior of two key economic times series - industrial...

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Kriz ve korumacılık: Tarih tekerrür edecek mi?

Öz, Sumru - 2009

As a result of the current global financial crisis, in 2009 the world economy is likely to experience the largest … contraction since World War II and the unemployment rate to reach historical highs in many countries. The fact that the current … Great Depression are not valid anymore to a great extent. Together with the decisions taken by the leaders of the world …

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