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Trade, Foreign Exchange, and Energy Policies in the Islamic Republic of Iran : Reform Agenda, Economic Implications, and Impact on the Poor

Jensen, Jesper; Tarr, David - 2013

The Islamic Republic of Iran has committed itself to substantial trade and market reform in its Third Five-Year Development Plan. It started out with nontariff barriers on all products, a dual exchange rate regime with the market rate more than four times the official rate, and domestic energy...

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Trade, Regulations, and Growth

Bolaky, Bineswaree; Freund, Caroline - 2013

Trade does not stimulate growth in economies with excessive business and labor regulations. The authors examine the effect of openness on growth using cross-country regressions in both levels and changes. Results from the levels regressions imply that increased openness is associated with a...

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Constraints to Growth and Job Creation in Low-Income Commonwealth of Independent States Countries

Verme, Paolo - 2012

Despite sustained output growth since 1997, low-income Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries (CIS-7) have not experienced growth in employment, a phenomenon observed elsewhere in transitional economies and labeled as "jobless growth." The author addresses the causes of this...

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Exploring the Growth Effects of COVID-19 across Developing Countries

Calderon, Cesar; Kubota, Megumi - 2021

This paper investigates the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on economic growth across developing countries. It documents the evolution and co-movement of COVID-19 infections with government responses (including health containment measures) across developing countries. It then...

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Indigenous and Colonial Origins of Comparative Economic Development : The Case of Colonial India and Africa

Bayly, C. A. - 2012

This paper concerns the institutional origins of economic development, emphasizing the cases of nineteenth-century India and Africa. Colonial institutions-the law, western style property rights, newspapers and statistical analysis-played an important part in the emergence of Indian public and...

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How "Natural" are Natural Monopolies in the Water Supply and Sewerage Sector? Case Studies from Developing and Transition Economies

Nauges, C??line; Berg, Caroline H. van den - 2012

economies in the water industry in four countries (Brazil, Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam) that differ substantially in economic … find evidence of economies of scale in Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam, implying the existence of a natural monopoly. In … customer density in Moldova and Vietnam. The results of this study show that the cost structure of the water and wastewater …

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Health Insurance Impacts on Health and Nonmedical Consumption in a Developing Country

Wagstaff, Adam; Pradhan, Menno - 2012

The authors examine the effects of the introduction of Vietnam's health insurance (VHI) program on health outcomes … biases due to inappropriate specification of the outcome regression model. The authors' results suggest that Vietnam's health …

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Trade policy review mechanism: Hong Kong : report by the Secretariat ; summary observations

In: World trade and arbitration materials 6 (1994) 6, pp. 16-29

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Trade policy review mechanism: Macau : report by the Secretariat ; summary observations

In: World trade and arbitration materials 6 (1994) 6, pp. 7-15

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Trade policy review mechanism: Israel : report by the Secretariat ; summary observations

In: World trade and arbitration materials 7 (1995) 1, pp. 59-77

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