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The Impact of Capital and Foreign Exchange Flowson the Competitiveness of Developing Countries

Kamar, Bassem; Bakardzhieva, Damyana; Naceur, Samy Ben; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

Attracting capital and foreign exchange flows is crucial for developing countries. Yet, these flows could lead to real exchange rate appreciation and may thus have detrimental effects on competitiveness, jeopardizing exports and growth. This paper investigates this dilemma by comparing the...

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FDI Flows to Low-Income Countries; Global Drivers and Growth Implications

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010

What accounts for variations in FDI flows from advanced to developing countries? How have FDI inflows explained cross-country growth experiences? In this paper we tackle both these questions empirically for a large sample of middle and low-income countries. Two key results emerge: (i) lower...

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The Impact of Trade on Employment, Welfare, and Income Distribution in Unionized General Oligopolistic Equilibrium

Egger, Hartmut; Etzel, Daniel - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper sets up a general oligopolistic equilibrium model with unionized labor markets. By accounting for productivity dierences, the model features prot and wage dierentials across industries. We use this setting to study the impact of trade liberalization on employment, welfare, and the...

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Exchange Rate Assessments; Methodologies for Oil Exporting Countries

Filho, Irineu E. Carvalho; Bems, Rudolfs - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

Are the current account fluctuations in oil-exporting countries "excessive"? How should their real exchange rate respond to the evolution of external (and domestic) fundamentals? This paper proposes methodologies tailored to the specific features of oil-exporting countries that help address...

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Growth and Structural Reforms; A New Assessment

Christiansen, Lone Engbo; Tressel, Thierry; Schindler, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

This paper presents a simultaneous assessment of the relationship between economic performance and three groups of economic reforms: domestic finance, trade, and the capital account. Among these, domestic financial reforms, and trade reforms, are robustly associated with economic growth, but...

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Revenue-enhancing Trade Liberalization in Developing Countries

Mukherjee, Arijit; Haque, M. Emranul - In: Economics Bulletin 29 (2009) 3, pp. 2275-2281

as a profit tax reform, the market mechanism itself takes care of the loss of government revenue following a tariff … tariff reduction is required for an intermediate level of entry cost. If the entry cost is very small, the loss of government … revenue following a tariff reduction cannot be compensated even with a profit tax reform. Hence, the net effect of a tariff …

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EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements - Empirical Evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa

Vollmer, Sebastian; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2009

apply the actual tariff reduction rates recently negotiated between the EU and the African countries to estimate the …

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Child work and schooling under trade liberalization in Indonesia

Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sparrow, Robert - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2009

import tariff barriers. We use seven rounds (1993 to 2002) of the Indonesian annual national household survey (Susenas), and … relate workforce participation and school enrolment of children aged 10-15 to geographic variation in relative tariff … and an increase in enrolment among 10 to 15 year olds. The effects of tariff reductions are strongest for children from …

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Saving Good Jobs under Global Competition by Rewarding Quality and Efforts

Wang, Yongjin; Zhao, Laixun - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2013

This paper links firms’ endogenous quality choice to worker effort and efficiency wages. The model generates two distinct features: effort is rewarded and quality is rewarded. Then firms with higher monitoring accuracy produce higher quality and pay higher wages. When trade is opened, while...

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Sri Lanka's Post-conflict Development Challenge: Learning from the Past

Athukorala, Prema-chandra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

The end of the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka in 2009 generated widespread expectations of a period of sustained economic growth, building on the achievements of the liberalisation reforms sustained over three previous decades. However, recent developments have dampened that optimism, rekindling...

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