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Developing Countries and Monitoring WTO Commitments in Response to the Global Economic Crisis

Bown, Chad P. - 2017

This paper examines the role of the public sector in providing additional information to exporters in developing countries as they seek to monitor and keep open their access to foreign markets by using the rules of the WTO system. It highlights new information generation and dissemination...

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Notes on Patents, Distortions, and Development

Wodon, Quentin T. - 2017

The idea behind patent policies is to increase the output of commercially useful innovations by creating a transitory propertyy right that allows the inventor to appropriate part of the returns from his invention. In developing countries, two types of considerations need to be addressed. First,...

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The Global Financial Crisis and Development Thinking

Rogers, F. Halsey - 2017

The global financial crisis has not only dealt a major blow to the global economy, but also shaken confidence in economic management in the developed world and the economic models that guide it. The crisis has revealed major market failures, especially in the housing bubble and its transmission...

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Learning from Financial Crises

Lim, Jamus Jerome - 2017

This paper considers the question of whether international banks learn from their previous crisis experiences and reduce their lending to developing countries in the event of a financial crisis. The analysis combines a bank-level dataset of bank activity and ownership with country-level data on...

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Sharing the Benefits of Innovation-Digitization : A Summary of Market Processes and Policy Suggestions

Islam, Roumeen - 2018

Governments play a very important role in supporting innovation, managing the disruptive effects of innovation, and … ensuring that the benefits of innovation are broadly shared in the long run. This paper reviews the literature on market … mechanisms that translate innovation into jobs and policies that are needed to improve outcomes. Although many countries now …

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Emigration and Democracy

Docquier, Frédéric - 2017

Migration is an important yet neglected determinant of institutions. This paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. The authors find that emigration and human capital...

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Regulatory Constraints to Agricultural Productivity

Divanbeigi, Raian - 2017

The economic thinking around the role of agriculture for development has evolved since the 1950s. Over the past decades, the agriculture sector has been rediscovered as a sector with great potential for triggering growth, reducing poverty and inequality, providing food security, and delivering...

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Aid Dependence Reconsidered

Azam, Jean-Paul - 2017

When foreign aid undermines institutional development aid recipients can exhibit the symptoms of aid "dependence" - benefiting from aid in the short term but damaged by it in the long term. The authors find that one equilibrium outcome can be high aid and weak institutions, even when donors and...

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Cost-Effectiveness Measurement in Development : Accounting for Local Costs and Noisy Impacts

Evans, David - 2017

As evidence from rigorous impact evaluations grows in development, there have been more calls to complement impact evaluation analysis with cost analysis, so that policy makers can make investment decisions based on costs as well as impacts. This paper discusses important considerations for...

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Health Systems in East Asia : What Can Developing Countries Learn from Japan and the Asian Tigers?

Wagstaff, Adam - 2017

(China)--and the recent reforms to them provide many potentially valuable lessons to East Asia's developing countries. All …

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