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Trade, poverty, and social protection in developing countries
Desai, Raj M.; Rudra, Nita - 2016
How do shifts in trade affect social protections for the poor? Although the fraction of the world's population … protection to stabilize their incomes. Among the shocks to which the absolute poor have been exposed are those created by trade … stability from this type of trade require that the poor are provided with some forms of adjustment assistance. We examine the …
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Building a conservative welfare state in Botswana
Seekings, Jeremy - 2017
Botswana's welfare state is both a parsimonious laggard in comparison with some other middle-income countries in Africa (such as Mauritius and South Africa) and extensive (in comparison with its low-income neighbours to the north and east). Coverage is broad but cash transfers are modest. This...
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The Swedish model
Kokko, Ari - 2010
The main characteristics of 'the Swedish model' are arguably related to the country's knowledge-intensive industry and its advanced welfare state. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the historical development of these two features of the Swedish economy. The first part looks at industrial...
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Estimation of substitution and transformation elasticities for South African trade
Saikkonen, Liisa - 2015
trade. We use linear methods to estimate elasticities without growth factors. We then employ a non-linear system of …
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Threshold and interaction effects in the trade, growth, and inequality relationship
Leyaro, Vincent - 2015
This paper examines the relationship between trade (exports), growth, and inequality, using a panel of 100 countries … over 30 years (1980 to 2010). As there is no clear theoretical relationship between trade (exports) and inequality, and as … of trade (exports) on growth. The findings are that in general trade openness advances growth while inequality reduces …
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Agro-processing and horticultural exports from Africa
Fukase, Emiko; Martin, Will - 2016
escalation facing Africa, improvements in the productivity of agricultural processing, and reductions in trade barriers within …
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The effects of Chinese import penetration on firm innovation: Evidence from the Vietnamese manufacturing sector
Dang, Duc Anh - 2017
This paper evaluates the impact of Chinese import penetration on the innovation of Vietnamese manufacturing firms from 2011 to 2015, exploiting variations in import exposure by industry specialization and instrumenting for Chinese import penetration using Chinese global exports. Contrary to the...
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New data, new approaches and new evidence: A policy synthesis
Arndt, Channing - 2017
The Republic of South Africa faces the imperative of escaping economic stagnation. This paper seeks to synthesize results from a series of research efforts, including but not limited to the work conducted under the UNU-WIDER project on 'Regional growth and development in Southern Africa', and...
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Diaspora externalities: A view from the South
Rapoport, Hillel - 2018
global South. It is split into two parts: a first section reviews the effect of diaspora networks on trade, foreign …
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Six development paths in Southeast Asia: Three plus three
Montes, Manuel F. - 2018
: agriculture, industry, foreign trade and investment, and social development. By using a more socially grounded analytical approach …
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