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No. 175 | 01 Apr 2001 |
Fighting Corruption in Customs Administration
In many developing countries, customs efficiency is hampered by widespread corruption. This creates a major disincentive and obstacle to trade expansion. It also leads to disastrous consequences in terms of national security and public finance.This... |
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No. 142 | 01 Nov 1998 |
Fighting Extreme Poverty in Brazil
Against the background of Brazil’s highly unequal distribution of income and wealth, and its history of alienation and passivity of the poor, in particular during the years of political authoritarianism, this paper shows how an active civil society,... |
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No. 162 | 01 Aug 2000 |
Financial Crises and International Architecture
Can devaluations and exchange controls be co-ordinated at the regional or global level, to lessen their beggar-thy-neighbour character? Probably not without co-ordination mechanisms among monetary and fiscal authorities like the ones found in the EU.... |
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No. 232 | 01 Jan 2004 |
Financing Global and Regional Public Goods Through ODA
The present level of ODA falls short of the amount needed to finance the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The figure of additional $50 billion per year, roughly the present total of ODA spent by DAC donors, is often quoted (e.g. by the Zedillo... |
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No. 344 | 26 May 2021 |
Financing the extension of social insurance to informal economy workers
Informal employment, defined through the lack of employment-based social protection, constitutes the bulk of employment in developing countries, and entails a level of vulnerability to poverty and other risks that are borne by all who are dependent... |
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No. 126 | 01 Aug 1997 |
Fiscal Alternatives of Moving from Unfunded to Funded Pensions
The reform of public pension systems has become a key policy issue in many countries. Because conventional approaches to reform largely unfunded retirement income schemes prove politically and economically difficult, attention has focused on the... |
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No. 264 | 01 Nov 2007 |
Fiscal Decentralisation, Chinese Style
This paper analyses the effect of fiscal decentralisation on health outcomes in China using a panel data set with nationwide county-level data. We find that counties in more fiscally decentralised provinces have lower infant mortality rates than... |
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No. 291 | 25 Aug 2010 |
Fiscal Policy in Latin America
This paper analyses fiscal policy for several economies in Latin America, from the early nineties to the 2009 crisis. We present original estimates of cyclically-adjusted public revenues for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico,... |
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No. 336 | 23 Feb 2017 |
Fiscal policy and the cycle in Latin America
A stronger macroeconomic position when the financial crisis erupted allowed Latin American economies to mitigate its impact through fiscal expansions, reversing the characteristic procyclical behaviour of fiscal policy. At the same time, in the last... |
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No. 218 | 01 Nov 2003 |
Float in Order to Fix?
The so-called “accession economies” preparing to enter the European Union are experiencing increased inward capital flows based upon positive interest spreads and expectations of currency appreciation. While the authorities of these countries have... |
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No. 345 | 27 May 2021 |
Forecasting developing Asian economies during normal times and large external shocks: Approaches and challenges
Predicting future economic trends appropriately is essential to economic policy making. Currently, the DSGE model approach is a benchmark economic forecasting technique widely employed. However, large external shocks, such as large-scale natural... |
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No. 194 | 01 Aug 2002 |
Foreign Direct Investment and Intellectual Capital Formation in Southeast Asia
This paper takes the case of Southeast Asia to examine the role played by multinational corporations (MNCs) in the transfer of knowledge and formation of human capital in FDI host nations. It explores the changing nature of FDI within the region and... |
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No. 24 | 01 Aug 1990 |
From Globalization to Regionalization
From 1983 to 1989 Mexico pursued a strategy of integration into the global economy and reducing dependence on the US economy. That strategy was based on bilateral sectoral negotiations with the United States and multilateral negotiations through GATT... |
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No. 151 | 01 Sept 1999 |
Gender, Human Capital and Growth
This Technical Paper reports on a body of research conducted for the OECD Development Centre by Donald J. Robbins. It examines the patterns and determinants of rapidly rising educational attainment in six Latin American countries — Argentina, Chile,... |
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No. 116 | 01 Sept 1996 |
General Equilibrium Modelling of Trade and the Environment
The environmental impacts of economic activity have become an increasingly urgent concern in both OECD Member countries, as well as in non-Member countries. Research in this area is still in its infancy, and the data required to buttress analytical... |
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No. 161 | 01 Jul 2000 |
Global Capital Flows and the Environment in the 21st Century
Both the magnitude and the composition of capital flows from rich to poor countries have changed markedly over the past decade. While official flows have stagnated, private flows have mushroomed and portfolio investment and bank lending have grown... |
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No. 226 | 01 Nov 2003 |
Globalisation and Poverty Changes in Colombia
Assessing the final impact of globalisation on poverty is a difficult task: i) globalisation affects poverty through numerous channels; ii) some linkages are positive and some are negative and therefore cannot be analysed qualitatively but require... |
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No. 176 | 01 May 2001 |
Globalisation and Transformation
The globalisation of economic relationships and the systemic transformation in post-socialist countries are two interlacing processes and a mark of the turn of the century. Globalisation, that is, the institutional and real integration of national... |
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No. 219 | 01 Nov 2003 |
Globalisation in Developing Countries
The quest for large numbers has been going on for some time in international trade economics: models of trade liberalisation have consistently produced results that, compared ex post with real world data, show the right sign but the “wrong”... |
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No. 186 | 01 Dec 2001 |
Globalisation, Growth and Income Inequality
Efforts to get Sub-Saharan Africa back into the world economy through internationally-backed reforms have largely failed due to lack of institutions, suitable local conditions or ability to negotiate effectively for foreign aid. Powerful interests or... |
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Fighting Corruption in Customs Administration
Irène Hors
01 Apr 2001
In many developing countries, customs efficiency is hampered by widespread corruption. This creates a major disincentive and obstacle to trade expansion. It also leads to disastrous consequences in terms of national security and public finance.This...
Fighting Extreme Poverty in Brazil
Fernanda Lopes de Carvalho
01 Nov 1998
Against the background of Brazil’s highly unequal distribution of income and wealth, and its history of alienation and passivity of the poor, in particular during the years of political authoritarianism, this paper shows how an active civil society,...
Financial Crises and International Architecture
Jorge Braga de Macedo
01 Aug 2000
Can devaluations and exchange controls be co-ordinated at the regional or global level, to lessen their beggar-thy-neighbour character? Probably not without co-ordination mechanisms among monetary and fiscal authorities like the ones found in the EU....
Financing Global and Regional Public Goods Through ODA
Helmut Reisen, Marcelo Soto and Thomas Weithöner
01 Jan 2004
The present level of ODA falls short of the amount needed to finance the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The figure of additional $50 billion per year, roughly the present total of ODA spent by DAC donors, is often quoted (e.g. by the Zedillo...
Financing the extension of social insurance to informal economy workers
Alexandre Kolev and Justina La
26 May 2021
Informal employment, defined through the lack of employment-based social protection, constitutes the bulk of employment in developing countries, and entails a level of vulnerability to poverty and other risks that are borne by all who are dependent...
Fiscal Alternatives of Moving from Unfunded to Funded Pensions
Robert Holzmann
01 Aug 1997
The reform of public pension systems has become a key policy issue in many countries. Because conventional approaches to reform largely unfunded retirement income schemes prove politically and economically difficult, attention has focused on the...
Fiscal Decentralisation, Chinese Style
Hiroko Uchimura and Johannes Jütting
01 Nov 2007
This paper analyses the effect of fiscal decentralisation on health outcomes in China using a panel data set with nationwide county-level data. We find that counties in more fiscally decentralised provinces have lower infant mortality rates than...
Fiscal Policy in Latin America
Christian Daude, Ángel Melguizo and Alejandro Neut
25 Aug 2010
This paper analyses fiscal policy for several economies in Latin America, from the early nineties to the 2009 crisis. We present original estimates of cyclically-adjusted public revenues for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico,...
Fiscal policy and the cycle in Latin America
Enrique Alberola, Iván Kataryniuk, Ángel Melguizo and René Orozco
23 Feb 2017
A stronger macroeconomic position when the financial crisis erupted allowed Latin American economies to mitigate its impact through fiscal expansions, reversing the characteristic procyclical behaviour of fiscal policy. At the same time, in the last...
Float in Order to Fix?
Jorge Braga de Macedo and Helmut Reisen
01 Nov 2003
The so-called “accession economies” preparing to enter the European Union are experiencing increased inward capital flows based upon positive interest spreads and expectations of currency appreciation. While the authorities of these countries have...
Forecasting developing Asian economies during normal times and large external shocks: Approaches and challenges
Kensuke Tanaka
27 May 2021
Predicting future economic trends appropriately is essential to economic policy making. Currently, the DSGE model approach is a benchmark economic forecasting technique widely employed. However, large external shocks, such as large-scale natural...
Foreign Direct Investment and Intellectual Capital Formation in Southeast Asia
Bryan K. Ritchie
01 Aug 2002
This paper takes the case of Southeast Asia to examine the role played by multinational corporations (MNCs) in the transfer of knowledge and formation of human capital in FDI host nations. It explores the changing nature of FDI within the region and...
From Globalization to Regionalization
Wilson Peres Núñez
01 Aug 1990
From 1983 to 1989 Mexico pursued a strategy of integration into the global economy and reducing dependence on the US economy. That strategy was based on bilateral sectoral negotiations with the United States and multilateral negotiations through GATT...
Gender, Human Capital and Growth
Donald J. Robbins
01 Sept 1999
This Technical Paper reports on a body of research conducted for the OECD Development Centre by Donald J. Robbins. It examines the patterns and determinants of rapidly rising educational attainment in six Latin American countries — Argentina, Chile,...
General Equilibrium Modelling of Trade and the Environment
John Beghin, Sébastien Dessus, David Roland-Holst and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe
01 Sept 1996
The environmental impacts of economic activity have become an increasingly urgent concern in both OECD Member countries, as well as in non-Member countries. Research in this area is still in its infancy, and the data required to buttress analytical...
Global Capital Flows and the Environment in the 21st Century
David O’Connor
01 Jul 2000
Both the magnitude and the composition of capital flows from rich to poor countries have changed markedly over the past decade. While official flows have stagnated, private flows have mushroomed and portfolio investment and bank lending have grown...
Globalisation and Poverty Changes in Colombia
Maurizio Bussolo and Jann Lay
01 Nov 2003
Assessing the final impact of globalisation on poverty is a difficult task: i) globalisation affects poverty through numerous channels; ii) some linkages are positive and some are negative and therefore cannot be analysed qualitatively but require...
Globalisation and Transformation
Grzegorz W. Kolodko
01 May 2001
The globalisation of economic relationships and the systemic transformation in post-socialist countries are two interlacing processes and a mark of the turn of the century. Globalisation, that is, the institutional and real integration of national...
Globalisation in Developing Countries
Maurizio Bussolo and John Whalley
01 Nov 2003
The quest for large numbers has been going on for some time in international trade economics: models of trade liberalisation have consistently produced results that, compared ex post with real world data, show the right sign but the “wrong”...
Globalisation, Growth and Income Inequality
Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa
01 Dec 2001
Efforts to get Sub-Saharan Africa back into the world economy through internationally-backed reforms have largely failed due to lack of institutions, suitable local conditions or ability to negotiate effectively for foreign aid. Powerful interests or...