countries helped to support a solid rebound in global output right after the 2009 Global Recession. However, global growth … international cooperation and coordination in support of strong and sustained global growth and financial system stability. Sound …

-08 global financial crisis. This paper examines this slow growth recovery through the analysis of how the Caribbean's growth … partners could be behind the sluggish post-crisis recovery. The paper analyzes the economic growth of Caribbean countries as a … function of the growth in key global partners and of country-specific characteristics. The findings attribute an important role …

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 …

Growth fluctuations exhibit substantial synchronization across countries, which has been viewed as reflecting a global … countries. This paper brings these two perspectives together by analyzing international growth fluctuations in a setting that … that the cross-country dependence of aggregate growth is the combined result of global shocks summarized by a latent common …

dynamics of the relationship between exchange rate flexibility and economic growth. The findings indicate that financial … development exerts a positive influence on the relationship between exchange rate flexibility and GDP growth as well as total … factor productivity growth. The paper also documents a positive impact of trade openness on the relationship between exchange …

effects of taxation are seen in the context of the trade-offs between growth, labor formality and equity. The analysis …