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Global economic prospects : broad-based upturn, but for how long?

Devarajan, Shantayanan; Kose, M. Ayhan; Ohnsorge, Franziska - World Bank Group - 2018

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Kose, M. Ayhan; Sugawara, Naotaka; Terrones, Marco E. - 2020

The world economy has experienced four global recessions over the past seven decades: in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2009. During each of these episodes, annual real per capita global gross domestic product contracted, and this contraction was accompanied by weakening of other key indicators of global...

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Lao PDR Economic Monitor, May 2011 : Robust Growth amidst Inflationary Concerns

World Bank - 2011

Lao PDR's real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth will remain robust in 2011 with projected growth of 8.6 percent compared to 8.4 percent in 2010. Natural resources and manufacturing sectors are expected to drive growth this year. The expected growth in the garment exports (by about 15-20...

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Exporting and female labor market outcomes in Georgia

Hollweg, Claire H.; Lopez, Anne Beline Ong - 2020

Using firm-level data for Georgia, the paper estimates the quasi-elasticity of employment and wages with respect to the share of exports in total sales, to explore whether changes in the structure of sales (exporting versus selling to the domestic market) matter for labor market outcomes. The...

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Inflation in low-income countries

Ha, Jongrim; Ivanova, Anna; Montiel, Peter; Pedroni, … - 2019

This paper studies the effects of global and domestic inflation shocks on core price inflation in 105 countries between … empirical results indicate that most of the variation in inflation among low-income countries over the past decades is accounted … for by external shocks. More than half of the variation in core inflation rates among low-income countries is due to …

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China's and India's challenge to Latin America : opportunity or threat?

Lederman, Daniel (contributor); … - 2009

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World development report 2020 : trading for development in the age of global value chains

World Bank (Washington, District of Columbia) - 2019

"Global value chains (GVCs) powered the surge of international trade after 1990 and now account for almost half of all trade. This shift enabled an unprecedented economic convergence: poor countries grew rapidly and began to catch up with richer countries. Since the 2008 global financial crisis,...

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Women and Trade : The Role of Trade in Promoting Gender Equality

World Bank Group - 2020

Trade can dramatically improve women's lives, creating new jobs, enhancing consumer choices, and increasing women's bargaining power in society. It can also lead to job losses and a concentration of work in low-skilled employment. Given the complexity and specificity of the relationship between...

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Connecting to Compete 2010 : Trade Logistics in the Global Economy--The Logistics Performance Index and Its Indicators

Arvis, Jean-Francois - 2010

This report presents the findings of the second edition of Connecting to Compete, a report on the new dataset for the 2010 Logistics Performance Index (LPI) and its component indicators. Based on a worldwide survey of global freight forwarders and express carriers, the LPI is a benchmarking tool...

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Connecting to Compete 2007 : Trade Logistics in the Global Economy--The Logistics Performance Index and Its Indicators

Arvis, Jean-Francois - 2007

This is the first report presenting the Logistics Performance Index (LPI) and indicators. It aims to shed light on how different countries are doing in the area of trade logistics, and what they can do to improve their performance. It is based on a worldwide survey of the global freight...

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