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The information and communications technology sector has undergone a dynamic process of globalization and fragmentation …, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, World Trade Organization, Government of Vietnam, and Vietnamese industry …
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of elderly in the world, and below-replacement fertility rates since at least the 1980s. The typology helps identify … development policy priorities for countries in different stages of demographic transition, and opportunities through globalization …
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This paper presents a procedure to construct an asymmetric fan chart of risks around global growth forecasts. The distribution of risks around global growth forecasts is estimated by weighting information extracted from option pricing and survey-based measures of risk factors of global growth....
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The many and varied crises in the world economy since 2007 seem to have different origins and diverse manifestations …
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Evidence shows that foreign direct investment can provide many benefits to host countries, including productivity improvements, better jobs, and knowledge transfer. Further, it can serve as a vehicle for transformation of domestic production and better integration with global value chains....
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This is a background paper to the 2014 World Development Report. Risk is inherent to the pursuit of opportunity. This …
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In developing countries, younger and better-educated cohorts are entering the workforce. This developing world … of the world population. The findings under alternative assumptions suggest that global income inequality will likely …
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This paper computes a new financial globalization index for a large sample of countries for 1992-2016. Unlike other … measures, the financial globalization index corrects for the heteroscedasticity of global volatility. This leads to a downward … adjustment of financial globalization trends for developed, emerging, and frontier markets. The paper also shows that financial …
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Decades of services trade negotiations have produced a plethora of rules and commitments but limited real liberalization. One reason is a form of "negotiating tunnel vision," which has led to a focus on reciprocal market opening rather than on creating the regulatory preconditions for...
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Rapid growth among the major emerging markets over the past 20 years has boosted global demand for commodities. The seven largest emerging markets accounted for almost all the increase in global consumption of metals, and two-thirds of the increase in energy consumption over this period. As...
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