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Trusting Trade and the Private Sector for Food Security in Southeast Asia
Häftad, 2011
370 kr
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Trusting Trade and the Private Sector for Food Security in Southeast Asia challenges policy makers who oversee the rice sector in Southeast Asia and reexamines deep-rooted precepts about their responsibilities. The authors argue that fixating on national self-sufficiency has been costly and …
Protecting Mobile Money Against Financial Crimes
Global Policy Challenges and Solutions
Av Pierre-Laurent Chatain, Andrew Zerzan m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
348 kr
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Mobile Money is a booming industry in an increasing number of countries worldwide. The project results from increased demand for guidance and technical assistance from governments after the 2008 publication of an exploratory paper, Integrity in Mobile Phone Financial Services, which discussed …
Sticky Feet
How Labor Market Frictions Shape the Impact of International Trade on Jobs and Wages
Av Claire H. Hollweg, Daniel Lederman m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
358 kr
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This report quantifies labor mobility costs in developing countries and simulates the implied adjustment paths of employment and wages following a change in trade policy. High mobility costs are shown to reduce the potential gains to trade reform.
Trade Policy and Food Security
Improving Access to Food in Developing Countries in the Wake of High World Prices
Häftad, 2014
475 kr
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Since the end of 2010, world food prices have risen sharply reaching a record high in February 2011 and are now once again peaking at historically high levels, with high price volatility, which poses fundamental food security risks for consumers and governments, while discouraging investment in …
Trading Away from Conflict
Using Trade to Increase Resilience in Fragile States
Häftad, 2014
348 kr
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While economic growth in developing countries over the last ten years has lifted more people out of poverty than in any previous time, more than one billion people still live in countries affected by violent conflict. Conflict weakens governance, undermines economic development and threatens both …
Trade in Zimbabwe
Changing Incentives to Enhance Competitiveness
Av Richard Newfarmer, Martha Denisse Pierola m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
358 kr
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Zimbabwe's poor export performance derives from unpredictable macroeconomics, anti-export bias, and industrial policies undermining investor confidence. To inverse this trend, the government needs to introduce economy-wide incentives that align trade policies with national objectives, to increase …
Smart Specialization in Croatia
Inputs from Trade, Innovation, and Productivity Analysis
Av Arabela Aprahamian, Paulo Guilherme Correa m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
358 kr
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The report examines recent trends in Croatia in trade, productivity, innovation performance and policy governance framework, to help identify priorities for the development of the country's Smart Specialization Strategy, which is an ex-ante conditionality for access to the EU's Structural and …
Champions Wanted
Promoting Exports in the Middle East and North Africa
Av Mélise Jaud, Caroline Freund
Häftad, 2015
358 kr
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Using new firm-level export data collected in eight MENA countries - Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and Yemen - this study provides a finer and deeper diagnostic for the regions lack of export growth and diversification. Several main findings emerge from the analysis. First, …
Costa Rica Five Years After CAFTA-DR
Assessing Early Results
Av Friederike (Fritzi) Koehler-Geib, Susana M. Sanchez m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
417 kr
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For Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic-Central America-free trade agreement (CAFTA-DR) has been more than a trade agreement. Costa Rica has used trade liberalization and promotion of international trade as a core development strategy for decades. CAFTA-DR consolidated benefits that had previously …
Inclusive Global Value Chains
Policy Options in Trade and Complementary Areas for GVC Integration by Small and Medium Enterprises and Low-Income Developing Countries
Av Daria Taglioni, Ana Paula Cusolito
Häftad, 2016
417 kr
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This report is the first comprehensive framework on how to facilitate SMEs and LIDCs access to and upgrading within global value chains. It identifies policy interventions at the global level needed to support domestic reforms.
Strengthening Competitiveness in Bangladesh: Thematic Assessment
A Diagnostic Trade Integration Study
Av Sanjay Kathuria, Mariem Malouche m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
534 kr
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The report identifies a four-pillar strategy for Bangladesh to sustain and accelerate export growth: breaking into new markets, breaking into new products, improving worker and consumer welfare, and building a supportive environment.
Attracting Investment in Bangladesh: Sectoral Analyses
A Diagnostic Trade Integration Study
Av World Bank, Sanjay Kathuria m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
534 kr
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The report identifies a four-pillar strategy for Bangladesh to sustain and accelerate export growth: breaking into new markets, breaking into new products, improving worker and consumer welfare, and building a supportive environment.
Vietnam at a Crossroads
Engaging in the Next Generation of Global Value Chains
Av World Bank, Daria Taglioni m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
475 kr
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This volume supports Vietnam's path to economic prosperity by identifying policies and targeted interventions that will drive development through leveraging GVC participation that take major shifts in trade policy and rapid technological advances in ICT into account.
Reforming Non-Tariff Measures
From Evidence to Policy Advice
Av Olivier Cadot, Michael J. Ferrantino m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
417 kr
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Non-tariff measures (NTMs) in international trade continues to cause trade costs to be high and to impede the further growth of trade and the gains that can be derived from trade. This book discusses some of the analytical methods that can be used to estimate the impact of NTMs on international …
