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This paper reviews the challenges and opportunities raised by international trade for developing countries considering a green growth strategy. A key concern is the effect of environmental policies on international competitiveness. For production-generated pollution, there is evidence that...
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This paper studies the relationship between access to credit, demand shocks, and export market adjustments using firm-level panel survey data for 24 economies in the Eastern Europe and Central Asian region. The study finds that domestic shocks to demand have a significant influence on the firm's...
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While there is a consensus that the 2008-2009 crisis was triggered by financial market disruptions in the United States, there is little agreement on whether the transmission of the crisis and the subsequent prolonged recession are due to credit factors or to a collapse of demand for goods and...
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markets, Vietnam is coming to play an important role in this global industry. The recent influx of foreign investors, driven … building. This paper situates Vietnam in the global information and communications technology industry, and identifies several …. The paper concludes with a set of policy recommendations and forward-looking statements aimed at helping Vietnam move into …
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Gender-based wage discrimination is a highly researched area of labor economics. However, most studies on this topic have focused on schooling and paid limited attention to the mechanisms through which cognitive and noncognitive skills influence wages. This paper uses data from adults in seven...
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in Vietnam shows that the main determinant of the eradication of extreme poverty by 2030 is the income of unskilled … significant impact on poverty in Vietnam in about a quarter of the scenarios, with 400,000 to more than a million people living in …
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With 70 percent of its population living in coastal areas and low-lying deltas, Vietnam is exposed to many natural …, while the main strategy in Vietnam today to manage flood risk is to reduce exposure, the increase in exposure estimated in …
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of the latest Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys 2010, 2012, and 2014 and gridded weather data from the Climate … wages remain important income sources in rural Vietnam?especially for poorer households; (ii) rural communes are exposed to …
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This study combines high-resolution, geo-spatial data and household data from the Vietnam Living Standard Measurement … suggest that Vietnam?s poor are disproportionally exposed to environmental risks, which can result in livelihood impacts that …
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