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No. 304 | 01 Oct 2011 |
The Process of Reform in Latin America
This paper contributes to literature on the process of reform in Latin America. We study political economy aspects and the policy making process of reforms in what we identify as the five critical steps through the "life cycle" of a policy reform:... |
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No. 311 | 11 May 2012 |
The Product Space and the Middle-Income Trap
Rapid and sustained economic growth in the emerging world has brought new members, notably China, into the group of middle-income countries. Reaching this level of income, however, has historically presented countries with a new set of challenges to... |
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No. 319 | 29 Aug 2013 |
The Rationale for Higher Education Investment in Ibero-America
A key higher education policy question is about the financing of this sector. Who, why and how higher education should be paid for are debated around the world by governments, the academic community, students, experts and civil society. This is true... |
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No. 292 | 01 Sept 2010 |
The Renminbi and Poor-Country Growth
Discussions on how best to exit from global imbalances to create a more balanced world economy have ignored the impact on poor countries of proposals to redress these imbalances. This paper aims at filling that gap. It gauges the degree of renminbi... |
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No. 150 | 01 Jul 1999 |
The Role of Capital Accumulation, Adjustment and Structural Change for Economic Take-Off
In this study, we analyse extended periods of growth in Africa based on panel estimations from 27 African countries during the 1960-1996 period. Only a dozen of such rapid growth episodes are observable in Africa since 1960, and several of them... |
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No. 187 | 01 Dec 2001 |
The Social Impact of Globalisation in Southeast Asia
Developing economies have to balance globalisation’s benefits and costs. Increased competition can lead to better distribution and productivity but benefits are not shared equally because some sectors or regions grow faster than others. In Southeast... |
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No. 342 | 23 Sept 2020 |
The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) 2019
Since 2009, the OECD Development Centre has been publishing the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI), a cross-country measure of gender-based discrimination in social institutions (formal and informal laws, social norms and practices). This... |
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No. 29 | 01 Oct 1990 |
The Status and an Evaluation of the Electronics Industry in Taiwan
Taiwan’s information technology industry has experienced phenomenal growth in the last decade, and it is currently ranked among the largest in the world. The growth has been overwhelmingly export-oriented, with microcomputers and computer monitors... |
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No. 258 | 01 Jan 2007 |
The Usual Suspects
The paper addresses two core questions: do investment banks’ recommendations have an impact on the allocation of portfolio flows in the emerging-markets asset class? Above all, are these recommendations related to the business of investment banks? In... |
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No. 333 | 29 Sept 2016 |
The cost of air pollution in Africa
This paper is a first attempt at calculating the cost of air pollution in Africa. More precisely, it is a calculation of the major part of this cost: namely, the cost of premature deaths attributable to air pollution. It draws on the epidemiological... |
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No. 335 | 01 Feb 2017 |
The economic effects of labour immigration in developing countries
This paper reviews existing theoretical and empirical evidence on the economic effects of immigration in developing countries. Specifically, it discusses how immigration may affect labour market, entrepreneurship, human capital, productivity,... |
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No. 339 | 10 May 2017 |
The grant element method of measuring the concessionality of loans and debt relief
The grant element is the “gift portion” of a financial transaction. The mathematical technique for arriving at a precise grant element percentage was first proposed by John Pincus of the RAND Corporation in 1963, and developed mathematically by Göran... |
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No. 347 | 20 Dec 2021 |
The middle class in Emerging Asia
As Asian societies continue to undergo rapid economic transformation, income distribution and social stratification are set to change radically. A primary characteristic of this evolution is the emergence of wealthier Asian middle-income classes.... |
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No. 337 | 07 Mar 2017 |
The pursuit of happiness
The OECD has long argued that the ultimate goal of public policies is to improve the quality of our lives. But what makes us happy? Does living in a country guaranteeing equal rights and opportunities to women and men increase people’s happiness?... |
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No. 42 | 01 Aug 1991 |
Time-Varying Estimates on the Openness of the Capital Account in Korea and Taiwan
How open are the capital accounts in Korea and Taiwan? Has there been a trend towards more financial openness during the 1980s? This paper aims at answering both questions by estimating a model of interest determination first outlined by Edwards and... |
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No. 43 | 01 Aug 1991 |
Toward a Concept of Development Agreements
The problems associated with structural stagnation, the debt crisis, and policy mismanagement have proved resistant to the procedures of balance-of-payments stabilization and structural adjustment of the International Monetary Fund and the World... |
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No. 135 | 01 Jun 1998 |
Trade Integration with Europe, Export Diversification and Economic Growth in Egypt
Egypt needs to diversify exports further in order to emerge from its isolation and to draw the maximum advantage from the growth potential offered by trade globalisation. To what extent does the bilateral free trade agreement with the European Union... |
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No. 94 | 01 Feb 1994 |
Trade Liberalization and Employment Linkages in the Pacific Basin
At the 1994 APEC summit in Bogor, Indonesia, it was recommended that trade and investment barriers among the member countries be removed by 2020. Despite general consensus that trade liberalization would accelerate development in this most dynamic... |
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No. 48 | 01 Nov 1991 |
Trade Policies in a Global Context
The Rural/Urban-North/South Model (RUNS) is a global applied general equilibrium model, with a focus on agriculture. RUNS was initially developed in the early 1980's and has been used throughout the 1980's to provide analyses of world agricultural... |
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No. 127 | 01 Dec 1997 |
Trade Strategies for the Southern Mediterranean
The lagging economic performance of the Southern Mediterranean (SOM) region over the past decade is often attributed to the region’s relative lack of openness to international trade. The closer analysis of the region’s trade patterns undertaken in... |
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The Process of Reform in Latin America
Jeff Dayton-Johnson, Juliana Londoño and Sebastián Nieto Parra
01 Oct 2011
This paper contributes to literature on the process of reform in Latin America. We study political economy aspects and the policy making process of reforms in what we identify as the five critical steps through the "life cycle" of a policy reform:...
The Product Space and the Middle-Income Trap
Anna Jankowska, Arne Nagengast and José Ramón Perea
11 May 2012
Rapid and sustained economic growth in the emerging world has brought new members, notably China, into the group of middle-income countries. Reaching this level of income, however, has historically presented countries with a new set of challenges to...
The Rationale for Higher Education Investment in Ibero-America
José Joaquín Brunner
29 Aug 2013
A key higher education policy question is about the financing of this sector. Who, why and how higher education should be paid for are debated around the world by governments, the academic community, students, experts and civil society. This is true...
The Renminbi and Poor-Country Growth
Christopher Garroway, Burcu Hacibedel, Helmut Reisen and Edouard Turkisch
01 Sept 2010
Discussions on how best to exit from global imbalances to create a more balanced world economy have ignored the impact on poor countries of proposals to redress these imbalances. This paper aims at filling that gap. It gauges the degree of renminbi...
The Role of Capital Accumulation, Adjustment and Structural Change for Economic Take-Off
Jean-Claude Berthélemy and Ludvig Söderling
01 Jul 1999
In this study, we analyse extended periods of growth in Africa based on panel estimations from 27 African countries during the 1960-1996 period. Only a dozen of such rapid growth episodes are observable in Africa since 1960, and several of them...
The Social Impact of Globalisation in Southeast Asia
Mari Pangestu
01 Dec 2001
Developing economies have to balance globalisation’s benefits and costs. Increased competition can lead to better distribution and productivity but benefits are not shared equally because some sectors or regions grow faster than others. In Southeast...
The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) 2019
Gaëlle Ferrant, Léa Fuiret and Eduardo Zambrano
23 Sept 2020
Since 2009, the OECD Development Centre has been publishing the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI), a cross-country measure of gender-based discrimination in social institutions (formal and informal laws, social norms and practices). This...
The Status and an Evaluation of the Electronics Industry in Taiwan
Gee San
01 Oct 1990
Taiwan’s information technology industry has experienced phenomenal growth in the last decade, and it is currently ranked among the largest in the world. The growth has been overwhelmingly export-oriented, with microcomputers and computer monitors...
The Usual Suspects
Sebastián Nieto Parra and Javier Santiso
01 Jan 2007
The paper addresses two core questions: do investment banks’ recommendations have an impact on the allocation of portfolio flows in the emerging-markets asset class? Above all, are these recommendations related to the business of investment banks? In...
The cost of air pollution in Africa
Rana Roy
29 Sept 2016
This paper is a first attempt at calculating the cost of air pollution in Africa. More precisely, it is a calculation of the major part of this cost: namely, the cost of premature deaths attributable to air pollution. It draws on the epidemiological...
The economic effects of labour immigration in developing countries
Marcus H. Böhme and Sarah Kups
01 Feb 2017
This paper reviews existing theoretical and empirical evidence on the economic effects of immigration in developing countries. Specifically, it discusses how immigration may affect labour market, entrepreneurship, human capital, productivity,...
The grant element method of measuring the concessionality of loans and debt relief
Simon Scott
10 May 2017
The grant element is the “gift portion” of a financial transaction. The mathematical technique for arriving at a precise grant element percentage was first proposed by John Pincus of the RAND Corporation in 1963, and developed mathematically by Göran...
The middle class in Emerging Asia
Antoine Bonnet and Alexandre Kolev
20 Dec 2021
As Asian societies continue to undergo rapid economic transformation, income distribution and social stratification are set to change radically. A primary characteristic of this evolution is the emergence of wealthier Asian middle-income classes....
The pursuit of happiness
Gaëlle Ferrant, Alexandre Kolev and Caroline Tassot
07 Mar 2017
The OECD has long argued that the ultimate goal of public policies is to improve the quality of our lives. But what makes us happy? Does living in a country guaranteeing equal rights and opportunities to women and men increase people’s happiness?...
Time-Varying Estimates on the Openness of the Capital Account in Korea and Taiwan
Helmut Reisen and Hélène Yèches
01 Aug 1991
How open are the capital accounts in Korea and Taiwan? Has there been a trend towards more financial openness during the 1980s? This paper aims at answering both questions by estimating a model of interest determination first outlined by Edwards and...
Toward a Concept of Development Agreements
F. Gerard Adams
01 Aug 1991
The problems associated with structural stagnation, the debt crisis, and policy mismanagement have proved resistant to the procedures of balance-of-payments stabilization and structural adjustment of the International Monetary Fund and the World...
Trade Integration with Europe, Export Diversification and Economic Growth in Egypt
Sébastien Dessus and Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann
01 Jun 1998
Egypt needs to diversify exports further in order to emerge from its isolation and to draw the maximum advantage from the growth potential offered by trade globalisation. To what extent does the bilateral free trade agreement with the European Union...
Trade Liberalization and Employment Linkages in the Pacific Basin
Hiro Lee and David Roland-Holst
01 Feb 1994
At the 1994 APEC summit in Bogor, Indonesia, it was recommended that trade and investment barriers among the member countries be removed by 2020. Despite general consensus that trade liberalization would accelerate development in this most dynamic...
Trade Policies in a Global Context
Jean-Marc Burniaux and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe
01 Nov 1991
The Rural/Urban-North/South Model (RUNS) is a global applied general equilibrium model, with a focus on agriculture. RUNS was initially developed in the early 1980's and has been used throughout the 1980's to provide analyses of world agricultural...
Trade Strategies for the Southern Mediterranean
Peter A. Petri
01 Dec 1997
The lagging economic performance of the Southern Mediterranean (SOM) region over the past decade is often attributed to the region’s relative lack of openness to international trade. The closer analysis of the region’s trade patterns undertaken in...