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Trade Barriers or Catalysts? Non-Tariff Measures and Firm-Level Trade Margins

Fiankor, Dela-Dem Doe; Kassa, Woubet; Lartey, Abraham - 2025

This paper empirically examines how standards and technical regulations affect export margins in three African countries at the firm level. The approach involves combining detailed customs transaction data at the firm-product level with bilateral information on non-tariff measures within a...

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Global Expansion of Marine Protected Areas and the Redistribution of Fishing Effort

McDonald, Gavin; Bone, Jennifer; Costello, Christopher; … - 2025

The expansion of marine protected areas (MPAs) is a core focus of global conservation efforts, with the "30x30" initiative to protect 30% of the ocean by 2030 serving as a prominent example of this trend. This paper examines a series of proposed MPA network expansions of various sizes and...

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Global Evolution of Power Market Designs

Akcura, Elcin; Mutambatsere, Emelly - 2024

The design of the power market determines how the sector can address complex economic, social, environmental, and engineering challenges to deliver sustainable and reliable electricity at least cost to consumers. This is no simple task, as supply and demand must be balanced every second,...

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Global Ripple Effects

Aldaz-Carroll, Enrique; Jung, Euijin; Maliszewska, Maryla; … - 2024

The three major players in the global economy, the United States, the European Union, and China, have been designing climate mitigation policies that will help reduce their carbon emissions but will also likely reshape developing countries' trade, prices, and access to technology. This paper...

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Do Bilateral Labor Agreements Increase Migration? Global Evidence from 1960 to 2020

Adhikari, Samik; Cha'ngom, Narcisse; Kaila, Heidi; … - 2024

This paper estimates the impact of bilateral labor arrangements on migration between two countries. It uses comprehensive data on bilateral migration and bilateral labor agreements across all country pairs for each decade from 1960 to 2020, and employs an empirical specification with a rich set...

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The Global Information and Communications Technology Industry : Where Vietnam Fits in Global Value Chains

Sturgeon, Timothy; Zylberberg, Ezequiel - 2016

, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, World Trade Organization, Government of Vietnam, and Vietnamese industry …

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Food Prices and Poverty

Headey, Derek - 2016

on simulation models to address this question. In this paper World Bank poverty estimates are used to systematically test … majority of the world's poor still heavily rely on agriculture or agriculture-related activities to earn a living …

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Grow, Invest, Insure : A Game Plan to End Extreme Poverty by 2030

Gill, Indermit Singh; Revenga, Ana; Zeballos, Christian - 2016

today -- the world has learned about antipoverty strategies that work. These experiences should inform the final push to end … extreme poverty. In the 1960s and 1970s, when close to half of the world was living in extreme poverty, the approach that … parts of the developing world—it became clear that the two-point strategy to make economies grow and enable people to invest …

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Transit Migration : All Roads Lead to America

Artuc, Erhan; Özden, Çağlar - 2016

The paths of many migrants include multiple destinations and transit routes, yet this pattern is almost never reflected in empirical analyses. For example, 9 percent of recent immigrants to the United States arrived from a transit country as opposed to the country where they were born. Among...

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Global Talent Flows

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Özden, Çağlar; … - 2016

The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, the paper first reviews the...

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