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The aim of this paper is to identify possibilities for guiding policy in the area of basic research. We provide an extended review of basic research and offer new insights on its linkages to key economic variables and economic growth. After defining what basic research is, we identify and...
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We estimate the effect on economic development of China's industrial policy, in particular, the establishment of Special Economic Zones (SEZ). We use data from a panel of 276 Chinese cities and prefectures from 1988 to 2010. Our difference-in-difference estimator exploits the variation in the...
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about poverty and income inequality, the facts about trade liberalization and economic growth, the experience of Mexico …
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This paper traces the links from trade shocks to poverty in developing countries. It considers the determinants of … household and individual welfare (including potential differences between household members) and then identifies six trade-to-poverty …
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This paper reviews key recent literature on the effects of trade liberalisation on poverty in developing countries and … income and thus reduces poverty has not changed; some suggest that this is not true for very poor countries, but this is not …
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Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China's aging population …
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Information asymmetries are important in theory but difficult to identify in practice. We estimate the presence and importance of adverse selection and moral hazard in a consumer credit market using a new field experiment methodology. We randomized 58,000 direct mail offers issued by a major...
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Charitable donations by private individuals and firms can help fund the Millennium Development Goals. What are the prospects for increasing donations for international development, whether from small-scale donors, the super-rich (as in the recent gifts by Bill Gates and Ted Turner), or the...
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We analyze competition between vertically integrated infrastructure operators that provide access in different geographical areas. A regulator may impose a uniform access price, set local access rates, or deregulate access locally. We analyze the impact of these alternative regulatory regimes on...
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This paper examines the optimality of export subsidies in oligopolistic markets, when home and foreign firms have different costs and there is an opportunity cost to public funds. Subsidies are found to be optimal only for surprisingly low values of the shadow price of government funds, and if...
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