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International commodity prices and domestic bank lending in developing countries
Agarwal, Isha; Duttagupta, Rupa; Presbitero, Andrea - 2018 - This draft: November 8, 2017
We study the role of the bank-lending channel in propagating fluctuations in commodity prices to credit aggregates and economic activity in developing countries. We use data on more than 1,600 banks from 78 developing countries to analyze the transmission of changes in international commodity...
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Trade and trade policy issues in the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals and the sustainable development goals
Messerlin, Patrick A. - 2017
unsound - World Trade Organization negotiations during the implementation period of the MDGs (2007-2015); finally, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591046
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Trade and the post-2015 development agenda
Hoekman, Bernard M. - 2017
Trade can and should play an important role in making progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. This includes trade and investment in services, as realizing many of the goals is conditional on improved performance of services sectors in developing countries. The global environment...
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Trade, poverty eradication, and the sustainable development goals
Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido G. - 2016
This paper investigates if trade can help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of poverty eradication using microeconomic and macroeconomic mechanisms and the effects of trade and trade policy on consumer prices, producer prices, and wages. As these mechanisms affect the real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576860
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Coordinating healthcare and pension policies : an exploratory study
Bali, Azad Singh; Asher, Mukul G. - 2012
Rapid ageing of the population globally represents an unprecedented historical trend. As pension and healthcare costs are positively correlated with rising incomes, ageing, urbanization, and a shift from communicable to life-style diseases, managing these costs is a major challenge. There are...
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Examination of the Singapore shift in Japan's foreign direct investment in services in ASEAN
Yamanaka, Shintarō - 2011
Asia is fast becoming the largest recipient of Japan's foreign direct investment (FDI). Within the Asian region, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been the major investment destination of Japan. In the manufacturing sectors, however, the investment flows from Japan to ASEAN...
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Services policy reform in the People's Republic of China : before and after the global financial crisis
Fan, Ying - 2011
Adverse effects of the global financial crisis on international trade include falling demand, increased trade protectionism, and drying up of trade finance. Much attention has focused on the impact of the crisis on goods trade; however literature on its impact on services trade is limited,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009267712
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Towards "Trade Policy Analysis 2.0 " : from national comparative advantage to firm-level trade data
Cernat, Lucian - 2015
This paper makes the case for the need to "upgrade" current analytical tools used for trade policy analysis and complement them with more detailed firm-level data. Such an upgrade should be based on the latest intellectual advancements in trade theories and the latest firm-level trade statistics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010478514
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Trade policy and growth in Asia
Kawai, Masahiro; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2014
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and a multilateral approach under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)/World …-the-border regulatory barriers, the failure to conclude ambitious WTO multilateral trade negotiations, and the relative exclusion of small … raising use of FTA preferences, and the emergence of mega-regional FTA negotiations. Finally, it considers policy implications …
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The United States and the PRC : macroeconomic imbalances and economic diplomacy
Levy, Philip I. - 2011
This paper explores the ways in which macroeconomic imbalances have driven policy discussions between the United States (US) and People's Republic of China (PRC) in the last decade. The PRC's current account surplus, its growing foreign exchange reserves, and its shifting policies on exchange...
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