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Globalization of Labor Markets and the Growth Prospects of Nations

Basu, Kaushik - 2017

The many and varied crises in the world economy since 2007 seem to have different origins and diverse manifestations …

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Is the Developing World Catching Up? Global Convergence and National Rising Dispersion

Bussolo, Maurizio - 2017

rest of the world. Second, this convergence process will be accompanied by a widening of income distribution in two …

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Pull Your Small Area Estimates Up by the Bootstraps

Corral Rodas, Paul Andres - 2020

After almost two decades of poverty maps produced by the World Bank and multiple advances in the literature, this paper … presents a methodological update to the World Bank's toolkit for small area estimation. The paper reviews the computational … procedures of the current methods used by the World Bank: the traditional approach by Elbers, Lanjouw and Lanjouw (2003) and the …

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Oecs Ports : An Efficiency and Performance Assessment

Cubas, Diana - 2017

Handling charges in Caribbean ports are two to three times higher than in similar ports in other regions of the world …

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Measuring the Technical Efficiency of Airports in Latin America

Perelman, Sergio - 2017

world. In a second stage, they estimate a truncated regression to study the drivers of observed differences in airport …

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When and Where Do We See Regional Poverty Reduction and Convergence? Lessons from the Roof of Turkey

Azevedo, João Pedro - 2017

In the past decade, Turkey has experienced a notable level of poverty reduction at all levels (extreme poor, poor, and vulnerable). The steady decline in poverty was also resilient to the decline in gross domestic product per capita growth during the crisis. However, although poverty convergence...

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Regional Productivity Convergence in Peru

Iacovone, Leo - 2017

This paper examines whether labor productivity converged across Peru?s regions (?departments?) during 2002-12. Given the large differences in labor productivity across the regions of Peru, such convergence has the potential to raise aggregate productivity and incomes, and also reduce regional...

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States Diverge, Cities Converge : Drivers of Local Growth Catch-Up in India

Li, Yue - 2018

This paper takes a fresh look at growth convergence in India, combining insights from macroeconomics and urban economics. It departs from the existing literature in three ways. First, the paper assesses growth patterns across districts and across places below the district level instead of taking...

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Post-Conflict Aid, Real Exchange Rate Adjustment, and Catch-Up Growth

Elbadawi, Ibrahim - 2016

world. While moderate RER overvaluation is observed in post-conflicts, it cannot be traced down to the aid flows. The … empirical evidence on world growth reveals new findings about the pattern of catch-up growth during post-conflicts and the role …

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Poverty Convergence in a Time of Stagnation : A Municipal-Level Perspective from Mexico (1992-2014)

Lopez-Calva, Luis-Felipe - 2019

This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico during 1992-2014. The paper finds that, despite a context of overall stagnant economic growth and poverty reduction, there is evidence of income and poverty convergence at the...

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