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After almost four decades of price stability, inflation has recently approached historical highs. Initially driven by global energy and food price increases, the magnitude of the surge in inflation caught central banks and markets by surprise. Price pressures are now increasingly broadening to...
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How prevalent is remote work on a global scale? What are the prevailing modes of working arrangements at present? What are the foremost advantages of working from home and on employer's business premises? Is there a need for policy intervention? Our new Global Survey of Working Arrangements...
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Santini 2022). Currently, though, international agricultural trade is facing supply chain disruptions and rising world market … China-US trade war and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, are further rattling the food market. As the world's largest consumer … of agricultural goods, China's trade strategies influence world markets, with ripple-down effects for consumers around …
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region in the world for Research and Development and innovation in the sector - being the location for a majority of R&D and …
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Trade in the 21st century may face lower tariffs, but regulations that affect international trade in goods and services have proliferated. While regulations are important for many public policy objectives, different and complex non-tariff measures can become unnecessarily costly trade barriers...
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This paper builds on the recent arguments put forward by Richard Baldwin and others debunking the myth that we enter a period of de-globalisation. The paper argues that globalisation is a complex phenomenon that requires detailed, firm-level indicators going beyond simple aggregate metrics. When...
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in many countries around the world. Processing trade has been credited with stimulating China's participation in GVCs, in …
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The growing importance of services has led to significant structural change in advancedeconomies, with the service sector now accounting for the largest share of employment indeveloped countries. In his seminal model of the so-called cost disease of services, WilliamBaumol noted that the prices...
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