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No. 300 | 07 Jun 2011 |
“Stay With Us?” The Impact of Emigration on Wages in Honduras
While the econometric literature on the impact of immigration on labour markets is well developed, there is a striking gap with regards to the impact of emigration on sending countries. Building on the established literature measuring the impact of... |
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No. 199 | 01 Oct 2002 |
Will Basel II Affect International Capital Flows to Emerging Markets?
This paper investigates the consequences of Basel II for international capital flows to emerging markets. The paper shows that the magnitude of effects critically depends on a number of assumptions, including: the mapping of risk weights to ratings,... |
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No. 197 | 01 Oct 2002 |
Why are Some Countries so Poor?
The paper attempts to explain why single factor explanations of the poverty of nations are usually found to be unsatisfactory. Middle- and low-income countries excluding sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, have an income per head which stands at about... |
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No. 287 | 03 Jan 2010 |
Why Do so many Women End up in Bad Jobs?
There is an increasing concern in the development community about the increase in the ‘feminisation of bad jobs’ of many developing countries. Indeed, recent analysis shows a growing proportion of women are in jobs with poor working conditions and... |
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No. 274 | 01 Nov 2008 |
Who Saw Sovereign Debt Crises Coming?
This paper studies sovereign debt crises during the period 1993-2006 through the prism of the primary sovereign bond market. Two conclusions emerge. First, investment banks price sovereign default risk well before crises occur and before investors... |
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No. 188 | 01 Dec 2001 |
Where Does Inequality Come From?
Differences in inequality between Latin American countries are not so much caused by globalisation as by a variety of political and economic structures and government policies. Hostile elites have made democracy fragile and are delaying the mass... |
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No. 315 | 23 Nov 2012 |
What Drives Tax Morale?
This paper reviews the literature and contributes with some evidence based on the World Values Survey on the drivers of tax morale around the world, with an emphasis on developing countries. It shows that socio-economic factors such as age, religion,... |
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No. 93 | 01 Jan 1994 |
What Can Developing Countries Learn from OECD Labour Market Programmes and Policies?
Many OECD Member countries and a large number of the developing countries are suffering from extensive unemployment, both in short and long-term forms. Based on a five-part schema of labour market problems, this paper summarises and evaluates the... |
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No. 272 | 01 Oct 2008 |
Wall Street and Elections in Latin American Emerging Economies
Political cycles represent a core issue for capital markets in developing and emerging countries. This paper analyses the intricate links between financial markets and emerging democracies and highlights changes in the ways analysts and investors... |
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No. 191 | 01 Aug 2002 |
Virtuous Circles? Human Capital Formation, Economic Development and the Multinational Enterprise
In recent years, academics and policy makers have emphasised the role of human capital formation in economic development. By creating human capital, countries become more attractive to private investment, both domestic and foreign. And through such... |
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No. 114 | 01 Jul 1996 |
Vertical Intra-Industry Trade Between China and OECD Countries
This paper examines the issue of intra-industry trade in a transition economy. We address the question of whether the market-opening reforms in China have resulted in an increasing exchange of similar products, or whether foreign trade is still... |
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No. 343 | 28 Sept 2020 |
Using Google data to understand governments’ approval in Latin America
This paper studies the potential drivers of governments’ approval rates in 18 Latin American countries using Internet search query data from Google Trends and traditional data sources. It employs monthly panel data between January 2006 and December... |
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No. 125 | 01 Aug 1997 |
Urban Credit Co-Operatives in China
This Technical Paper is a study of the working of urban credit cooperatives in China. It begins by putting the German, French, US and Japanese experiences into perspective, before constructing a macroeconomic analysis of the operation, institutional... |
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No. 22 | 01 Jul 1990 |
Unemployment in Developing Countries
In the 1960s and 1970s a number of views were formed about unemployment in developing countries, which have remained largely accepted since then. The views can be summarized as three propositions: a) the poor cannot afford to become unemployed; b)... |
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No. 331 | 18 May 2016 |
Understanding student performance beyond traditional factors
This paper studies the linkages between schools’ inputs and students’ performance in Latin America. We exploit the richness of PISA 2012 questionnaires at the student and school level to study the association between a different set of inputs and... |
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No. 256 | 01 Sept 2006 |
Ulysses, the Sirens and the Art of Navigation
The paper focuses on relations between experts and politicians in Latin America. It is divided into three parts. The first outlines the distinctive features of the political economy of expertise in Latin America. This provides the context to the... |
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No. 349 | 06 Oct 2023 |
Transitions to and from formal employment and income dynamics
Using panel data for Indonesia, Malawi, Peru and South Africa, this paper investigates the relationship between transitions to formal employment and workers’ labour income. It shows that transiting from informal to formal employment increases the... |
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No. 102 | 01 Dec 1994 |
Transitional Problems from Reform to Growth
In recent years, considerable analytical work has been done on issues of economic reform in countries undertaking adjustment. Less attention has been devoted to the social costs of adjustment and the transitional problems during the period from... |
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No. 245 | 08 Jul 2005 |
Trade and Structural Adjustment Policies in Selected Developing Countries
The experience of the five examined industries (agro-food in Chile, cut flowers in Kenya, garment in Lesotho and in Mauritius and seafood in Thailand) demonstrates that non-traditional industries can emerge and achieved strong growth rates in very... |
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No. 99 | 01 Oct 1994 |
Trade and Pollution Linkages
Linkages between international trade and the domestic environment are receiving intensified scrutiny by researchers and policy makers alike. This is especially the case in developing countries, where trade can be a significant agent of change and... |
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“Stay With Us?” The Impact of Emigration on Wages in Honduras
Jason Gagnon
07 Jun 2011
While the econometric literature on the impact of immigration on labour markets is well developed, there is a striking gap with regards to the impact of emigration on sending countries. Building on the established literature measuring the impact of...
Will Basel II Affect International Capital Flows to Emerging Markets?
Beatrice Weder and Michael Wedow
01 Oct 2002
This paper investigates the consequences of Basel II for international capital flows to emerging markets. The paper shows that the magnitude of effects critically depends on a number of assumptions, including: the mapping of risk weights to ratings,...
Why are Some Countries so Poor?
Daniel Cohen and Marcelo Soto
01 Oct 2002
The paper attempts to explain why single factor explanations of the poverty of nations are usually found to be unsatisfactory. Middle- and low-income countries excluding sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, have an income per head which stands at about...
Why Do so many Women End up in Bad Jobs?
Johannes Jütting, Angela Luci and Christian Morrisson
03 Jan 2010
There is an increasing concern in the development community about the increase in the ‘feminisation of bad jobs’ of many developing countries. Indeed, recent analysis shows a growing proportion of women are in jobs with poor working conditions and...
Who Saw Sovereign Debt Crises Coming?
Sebastián Nieto Parra
01 Nov 2008
This paper studies sovereign debt crises during the period 1993-2006 through the prism of the primary sovereign bond market. Two conclusions emerge. First, investment banks price sovereign default risk well before crises occur and before investors...
Where Does Inequality Come From?
James A. Robinson
01 Dec 2001
Differences in inequality between Latin American countries are not so much caused by globalisation as by a variety of political and economic structures and government policies. Hostile elites have made democracy fragile and are delaying the mass...
What Drives Tax Morale?
Christian Daude, Hamlet Gutiérrez and Ángel Melguizo
23 Nov 2012
This paper reviews the literature and contributes with some evidence based on the World Values Survey on the drivers of tax morale around the world, with an emphasis on developing countries. It shows that socio-economic factors such as age, religion,...
What Can Developing Countries Learn from OECD Labour Market Programmes and Policies?
Åsa Sohlman and David Turnham
01 Jan 1994
Many OECD Member countries and a large number of the developing countries are suffering from extensive unemployment, both in short and long-term forms. Based on a five-part schema of labour market problems, this paper summarises and evaluates the...
Wall Street and Elections in Latin American Emerging Economies
Sebastián Nieto Parra and Javier Santiso
01 Oct 2008
Political cycles represent a core issue for capital markets in developing and emerging countries. This paper analyses the intricate links between financial markets and emerging democracies and highlights changes in the ways analysts and investors...
Virtuous Circles? Human Capital Formation, Economic Development and the Multinational Enterprise
Ethan B. Kapstein
01 Aug 2002
In recent years, academics and policy makers have emphasised the role of human capital formation in economic development. By creating human capital, countries become more attractive to private investment, both domestic and foreign. And through such...
Vertical Intra-Industry Trade Between China and OECD Countries
Lisbeth Hellvin
01 Jul 1996
This paper examines the issue of intra-industry trade in a transition economy. We address the question of whether the market-opening reforms in China have resulted in an increasing exchange of similar products, or whether foreign trade is still...
Using Google data to understand governments’ approval in Latin America
Nathalia Montoya, Sebastián Nieto-Parra, René Orozco and Juan Vázquez Zamora
28 Sept 2020
This paper studies the potential drivers of governments’ approval rates in 18 Latin American countries using Internet search query data from Google Trends and traditional data sources. It employs monthly panel data between January 2006 and December...
Urban Credit Co-Operatives in China
Eric Girardin and Xie Ping
01 Aug 1997
This Technical Paper is a study of the working of urban credit cooperatives in China. It begins by putting the German, French, US and Japanese experiences into perspective, before constructing a macroeconomic analysis of the operation, institutional...
Unemployment in Developing Countries
David Turnham and Deniz Eröcal
01 Jul 1990
In the 1960s and 1970s a number of views were formed about unemployment in developing countries, which have remained largely accepted since then. The views can be summarized as three propositions: a) the poor cannot afford to become unemployed; b)...
Understanding student performance beyond traditional factors
Rolando Avendaño, Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Sebastián Nieto Parra and Flora Vever
18 May 2016
This paper studies the linkages between schools’ inputs and students’ performance in Latin America. We exploit the richness of PISA 2012 questionnaires at the student and school level to study the association between a different set of inputs and...
Ulysses, the Sirens and the Art of Navigation
Javier Santiso and Laurence Whitehead
01 Sept 2006
The paper focuses on relations between experts and politicians in Latin America. It is divided into three parts. The first outlines the distinctive features of the political economy of expertise in Latin America. This provides the context to the...
Transitions to and from formal employment and income dynamics
Mariya Aleksynska, Justina La and Thomas Manfredi
06 Oct 2023
Using panel data for Indonesia, Malawi, Peru and South Africa, this paper investigates the relationship between transitions to formal employment and workers’ labour income. It shows that transiting from informal to formal employment increases the...
Transitional Problems from Reform to Growth
Mahmoud Abdel-Fadil
01 Dec 1994
In recent years, considerable analytical work has been done on issues of economic reform in countries undertaking adjustment. Less attention has been devoted to the social costs of adjustment and the transitional problems during the period from...
Trade and Structural Adjustment Policies in Selected Developing Countries
Jens Andersson, Federico Bonaglia, Kiichiro Fukasaku and Caroline Lesser
08 Jul 2005
The experience of the five examined industries (agro-food in Chile, cut flowers in Kenya, garment in Lesotho and in Mauritius and seafood in Thailand) demonstrates that non-traditional industries can emerge and achieved strong growth rates in very...
Trade and Pollution Linkages
John Beghin, David Roland-Holst and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe
01 Oct 1994
Linkages between international trade and the domestic environment are receiving intensified scrutiny by researchers and policy makers alike. This is especially the case in developing countries, where trade can be a significant agent of change and...