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Are All the Sacred Cows Dead? Implications of the Financial Crisis for Macro and Financial Policies
Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Serven, Luis - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
The recent global financial crisis has shaken the confidence of developed and developing countries alike in the very blueprint of financial and macro policies that underlie the western capitalist systems. In an effort to contain the crisis from spreading, the authorities in the US and many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005007475
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Growth poles and multipolarity
Adams-Kane, Jonathon; Lim, Jamus Jerome - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011
polarity values for nation states in the global economy. The calculations suggest that China, Western Europe, and the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144155
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Explaining local manufacturing growth in Chile : the advantages of sectoral diversity
Almeida, Rita; Fernandes, Ana M. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011
This paper investigates whether the agglomeration of economic activity in regional clusters affects long-run manufacturing total factor productivity growth in an emerging market context. It explores a large firm-level panel dataset for Chile during a period characterized by high growth rates and...
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Employment growth patterns in South Asia : some evidence from interim enterprise survey data
Friesenbichler, Klaus - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011
This paper analyzes firm growth patterns in South Asia, using establishment level data from an Interim Enterprise Survey. The survey was conducted by the World Bank in 2009 and 2010 and covers seven countries in the region. The first finding suggests that size in the base year gains importance...
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Measures of fixed capital in agriculture
Butzer, Rita; Mundlak, Yair; Larson, Donald F. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2010
Capital is a fundamental component of agricultural production, and the accumulation of capital is key to growth in agriculture and the process of development. Unfortunately, cross-country data sets on agricultural fixed capital are rare. Using a common methodology that allows comparisons across...
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Growth still is good for the poor
Dollar, David; Kleineberg, Tatjana; Kraay, Aart - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013
Incomes in the poorest two quintiles on average increase at the same rate as overall average incomes. This is because, in a global dataset spanning 118 countries over the past four decades, changes in the share of income of the poorest quintiles are generally small and uncorrelated with changes...
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Sub-Saharan Africa's recent growth spurt : an analysis of the sources of growth
Cho, Yoonyoung; Tien, Bienvenue N. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Since the mid-1990s, Sub-Saharan Africa has experienced unprecedented levels of high economic growth. A key question follows: What accounts for the turnaround of the growth performance in the mid-1990s? The answer can provide insight into whether the recent growth spurt in Sub-Saharan Africa is...
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Structural change, dualism and economic development : the role of the vulnerable poor on marginal lands
Barbier, Edward B. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013
natural resources use in the rural economy matter in the overall dynamics of structural change. The concentration of the rural … poor on marginal lands is essentially a barometer of economy-wide development. As long as there are abundant marginal lands … in the economy. Moreover, the economy is vulnerable to the"Dutch disease"effects of a booming primary products sector. As …
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How significant is Africa's demographic dividend for its future growth and poverty reduction ?
Ahmed, S. Amer; Cruz, Marcio; Go, Delfin S.; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
economy additionally by 22 percent by 2030 relative to the base case and reduce poverty by an additional 51 million people. …
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Wage growth, landholding, and mechanization in Chinese agriculture
Wang, Xiaobing; Yamauchi, Futoshi; Otsuka, Keijiro; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
This paper uses farm panel data from China to examine the dynamics of land transactions, machine investments, and the demand for machine services. Recently, China's agriculture has experienced a large expansion of machine rentals and machine services provided by specialized agents, which has...
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