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We study how extreme temperature exposure impacts infant survival in the developing world. Our analysis overcomes the absence of vital registration systems in many poor countries, which has been a limiting factor in the temperature-mortality literature, by extracting birth histories from...
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development, consonant with patterns of demographic transition. The results suggest that provision of public health that raises …
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Assessing the consequences of population on the pace and process of economic growth is one of the oldest themes in the … consequences of demographic change. Such an approach places the population debates in perspective, and it infuses a healthy dose of … change on development have changed over time; why they have changed; what the most recent contributions to this literature …
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We study how extreme weather exposure impacts infant survival in the developing world. Our analysis overcomes the absence of vital registration systems in many poor countries by extracting birth histories from household surveys. Studying 53 developing countries that span five continents, we find...
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In this chapter, we discuss whether or not governance is an important source of variation in development experiences … literature on the political economy of development. Third, improving governance necessitates understanding the nature of the …
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This essay reviews the historical and ongoing role played by trade in sustained high growth and human development … progress, and makes the case that the post-2015 development agenda should include considerations related to trade rules and … argues that trade led economic growth must be prioritised in the post-2015 development agenda. …
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We investigate the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade, as two measures of globalization, on female labor force participation in a sample of 80 developing countries over the last decades. Contrary to the mainstream view in the literature, which is mainly based on country-case...
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To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...
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-advanced members of integration arrangements towards the development levels prevailing in more advanced member countries. Second, as an …
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economic development. The empirical analysis performed in the thesis, and summarised here, focuses on two mayor world trends in … modern economic development, namely increasing agglomeration and rising inequalities within countries. In particular, the …
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