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This paper investigates the causes of extreme fluctuations in commodity prices from 1990 to 2010. Analyzing two very distinct commodities-crude oil and fine wine, we find that macroeconomic factors are the main determinants of commodity prices. Although supply constraints have the expected...
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. However, for emerging market economies, financial globalization appears to have been associated, on average, with an increase …
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advantage. Financial globalization then induces more specialization and more trade. The present framework yields explicit closed …
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China's economic reforms over the past two decades have brought tremendous economic transformation, rapid growth, and closer integration into the global economy. Real income per capita has increased fivefold, raising millions of Chinese out of poverty. Despite these achievements, difficult...
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discuss how to improve the private investment environment in African countries and take advantage of globalization's benefits …
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Assiduously tracking the trends and consequences of globalization, the IMF's quarterly magazine Finance & Development … focuses on financial globalization, including the policy implications of the huge growth in cross-border capital flows …. Articles also look at the expansion of world trade, explore the impact of globalization on jobs, taxation, and the poor, and …
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Increased globalization - the international integration of markets for goods, technology, labor, and capital - has …
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The World Economic Outlook, published twice a year in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic, presents IMF staff economists' analyses of global economic developments during the near and medium term. Chapters give an overview of the world economy; consider issues affecting industrial countries,...
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-- 5. Making the Place Work: Managing Labour in Early Modern China by Anne Gerritsen -- 6. Woollen Manufacturing in Early …
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1. Regulation, Standards, and Risk Management in the Context of Globalization -- 2. Regulatory Diffusion from the EU to …
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