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Developing Countries' Changing Participation in World Trade

Martin, Will - In: World Bank Research Observer 18 (2003) 2, pp. 187-204

Recent years have seen substantial reductions in trade policy and other barriers inhibiting developing country participation in world trade. Lower barriers have contributed to a dramatic shift in the pattern of developing country trade--away from dependence on commodity exports to much greater...

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Financial Development : Maturing and Emerging Policy Issues

de la Torre, Augusto; Gozzi, Juan Carlos; Schmukler, … - In: World Bank Research Observer 22 (2007) 1, pp. 67-102

In recent decades, financial development policies in emerging market economies have been shaped by a fundamental shift toward market-based financial systems and the lessons fromFinancial crises. Today, there is consensus that financial development depends on financial stability and convergence...

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Competition in the Financial Sector : Overview of Competition Policies

Claessens, Stijn - In: World Bank Research Observer 24 (2009) 1, pp. 83-118

Competition in the financial sector, as in other sectors, matters for allocative, productive, and dynamic efficiency. Theory suggests, however, that unfettered competition is not necessarily best given the special features of financial services. The author discusses these analytical...

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Digital transformation and value chains: Introduction

Butollo, Florian; Gereffi, Gary; Yang, Chun; … - In: Global Networks 22 (2022) 4, pp. 585-594

New digital technologies based on the internet of things and artificial intelligence play centre stage in contemporary discussions about the prospects for economic development and the future of work. This article summarizes theoretical and empirical contributions on how these technologies affect...

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Accountability and opposition to globalization in international assemblies

Wilde, Pieter de; Junk, Wiebke Marie; Palmtag, Tabea - In: European journal of international relations 22 (2016) 4, pp. 823-846

Advocates of a global democratic parliament have expressed hopes that this would not only legitimize global governance in procedural terms, but also bring about more cosmopolitan policies. They point to the European Parliament as an example of a successful real existing democratic parliament...

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Why Do States Extend Rights to Immigrants? Institutional Settings and Historical Legacies Across 44 Countries Worldwide

Koopmans, Ruud; Michalowski, Ines - In: Comparative Political Studies 50 (2017) 1, pp. 41-74

belief in the literature on citizenship. We find no effect of a country’s degree of political globalization. We replicate …

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Rising powers, global capitalism and liberal global governance: A historical materialist account of the BRICs challenge

Stephen, Matthew D. - In: European Journal of International Relations 20 (2014) 4, pp. 912–938

) applies them to Brazil, Russia, India, China and other so-called ‘rising powers’ to account for the nature and extent of the …

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Winners and losers of globalization in Europe: attitudes and ideologies

Teney, Céline; Lacewell, Onawa Promise; De Wilde, Pieter - In: European Political Science Review 6 (2014) 4, pp. 575-595

Globalization pressures result in a new ideological conflict among Europeans. We use detailed items from the … positions toward the EU. This provides a fine-grained analysis of the ideologies underlying the poles of the new globalization … communitarian–cosmopolitan dimension. Subjective deprivation, evaluation of globalization as a threat, and (sub)national and …

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Digitalization and the geographies of production: Towards reshoring or global fragmentation?

Butollo, Florian - In: Competition & Change 25 (2021) 2, pp. 259-278

The relationship between digitalization and the governance and geographies of global value chains has not been explored systematically. This contribution discusses how digitalization affects the variables that determine the localization of manufacturing, i.e. the substitution of work through...

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Global diffusion of laws: The case of minimum age of marriage legislation, 1965–2015

Ebetürk, Irem - In: European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology 8 (2021) 3, pp. 294-328

The majority of countries in the world have laws setting the minimum age of marriage at 18 years old. This is a global legislative trend that intensified greatly in the 1990s. What explains this trend? To answer this question, I conduct quantitative analyses of factors influencing legislation...

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