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A decade after the 2009 Global Recession : macroeconomic developments
Koh, Wee Chian; Yu, Shu - 2020
Emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) weathered the 2009 global recession relatively well. However, the impact of the global recession varied across economies. EMDEs with stronger pre-crisis fundamentals - such as large foreign exchange reserves, sound fiscal positions, and low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257019
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Community-driven development : myths and realities
Wong, Susan; Guggenheim, Scott E. - 2018
institutions are weak or under stress. This paper examines what the evidence shows about the utility of community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011871307
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The scars of civil war : the long-term welfare effects of the Salvadoran armed conflict
Acosta, Pablo; Baez, Javier E.; Caruso, Germán; … - 2020
conflict in Central America. Identification is obtained from spatial and intertemporal variation in the intensity of the … conflict drawn from historical archive data comprising records of human casualties, disappearances, and refugees. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390399
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No household left behind : Afghanistan targeting the ultra poor impact evaluation
Bedoya, Guadalupe; Coville, Aidan; Haushofer, Johannes; … - 2019
increase in many fragile and conflict-affected areas where half of the extreme poor are expected to reside by 2030. These areas …-push" interventions can dramatically reduce poverty in fragile and conflict-affected regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051866
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How mass immigration affects countries with weak economic institutions : a natural experiment in Jordan
Nowrasteh, Alex; Forrester, Andrew C.; Blondin, Cole - 2019
To what extent does immigration affect the economic institutions in destination countries? While there is much evidence … that economic institutions in developed nations are either unaffected or improved after immigration, there is little … evidence of how immigration affects the economic institutions of developing countries that typically have weaker institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008388
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Better policies from policy-selective aid?
Annen, Kurt; Knack, Stephen F. - 2019
This paper shows that the increased policy-selectivity of aid allocations observed in recent years provides recipient countries an incentive to improve policies. The paper estimates that a change in the World Banks Country Policy and Institutional Assessment policy index from 1.5 to 2 for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051940
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Labor market impacts and responses : the economic consequences of a marine environmental disaster
Hoang Trung Xuan; Duong Trung Le; Nguyen, Ha; Nguyen … - 2019
This paper examines the labor market impacts of a large-scale marine environmental crisis caused by toxic chemical contamination in Vietnam's central coast in 2016. Combining labor force surveys with satellite data on fishing-boat detection, the analysis finds negative and heterogeneous impacts...
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Understanding the economic impacts of greenhouse gas mitigation policies on shipping : what is the state of the art of current modeling approaches?
Halim, Ronald A.; Smith, Tristan; Englert, Dominik - 2019
The International Maritime Organization's initial strategy on reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from ships stipulates that the international shipping sector should assess the impacts on states prior to adoption of the mitigation measures included in the strategy. This assessment should be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002701
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Migration and brain drain
Weltbank / Europe and Central Asia Region / Office of … - 2019
The share of immigrants in Western and Eastern Europe has increased rapidly over the past four decades.Today, one of every three immigrants in the world goes to Europe. Furthermore, although globally onlyone-third of migration takes place within regions, intraregional migration is especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121548
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Financing firms in hibernation during the COVID-19 pandemic
Didier, Tatiana; Huneeus, Federico; Larraín, Mauricio; … - 2020
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has halted economic activity worldwide, hurting firms and pushing them toward bankruptcy. This paper provides a unified framework to organize the policy debate related to firm financing during the downturn, centered along four main points. First, the economic...
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