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This paper investigates the impact labour regulation, as defined by labour standards, have on the international trade …
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such disparities are increasing, partly as a consequence of the uneven impact of trade openness and globalization. While …The UNU-WIDER project on 'Spatial Disparities in Human Development' has collected and analyzed evidence on the extent …
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The Adjustment-related Social Funds (SFs) have been introduced in more than 70 countries. They conted in limites resources. The SFs did not have a effect on the total social expenditure/GDP ratio, as in most cases the rise of the latter during the years of execution of the SFs was less than the...
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The emergence of a select group of developing countries as destinations for private portfolio investments in the 1990s (and the subsequent peso crisis in Mexico in 1994) has rekindled the old issues about the responsabilities and capacities public authorities have with regard to managing the...
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trade regime, exchange rate, credit and interest rate policies - were largely unnecessary or excessive. …
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. Both theory and experience show that the trade integration model is badly equipped to be the basis for regionalization in …
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This paper reassesses the gains from trade for sub-Saharan Africa, and draws their implications for labour market … trade liberalization in many African economies, coupled with insufficient compensation through labour market adjustments in …
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The purpose of this paper is to explore economic and political implications of Europe's Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) for developing countries.
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