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No. 53 | 01 Feb 1992 |
Economic Regionalisation and Intra-Industry Trade
The present paper examines the trade development of Pacific-Asian economies during the past decade from the perspective of regional integration. Its main focus is on the development of intra-regional and intra-industry trade. It provides some... |
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No. 129 | 01 Dec 1997 |
Economic Reform in Egypt in a Changing Global Economy
Egypt, the oldest and most populous country in the Arab world, and one of its most influential in the Southern Mediterranean region, is now moving into the global economy. During the 1990s the country has pursued successful macroeconomic... |
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No. 228 | 01 Nov 2003 |
Economic Reconstruction in Post-Conflict Transitions
The purpose of this paper is to develop a strategy for PCT in the DRC, drawing from the experience of other countries that have gone through this triple transition. These experiences will be used to identify the tasks that need to be carried out in... |
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No. 145 | 01 Mar 1999 |
Economic Policy Reform and Growth Prospects in Emerging African Economies
We assess the prospects for growth of African economies up to the year 2010 by modelling structural and policy determinants of growth, under different scenarios for changes in the exogenous factors and economic policies which shape the projections.... |
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No. 18 | 01 Jun 1990 |
Economic Policies and Sectoral Growth
In analysing Argentina's variable growth record over the period 1913 to 1984, the study develops a comprehensive framework which disaggregates the economy into three sectors: agriculture, nonagriculture and government. The aim is to examine the... |
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No. 149 | 01 Jun 1999 |
Economic Opening and the Demand for Skills in Developing Countries
A basic feature of development dynamics is the reallocation of labour from low– productivity to higher–productivity activities (generally more capital–intensive and also often more skill–intensive). The expansion of skilled labour supply that... |
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No. 65 | 01 May 1992 |
Economic Integration in the Pacific Region
Economic integration in the Pacific region — which includes the United States, Canada and Mexico — is rapidly occurring, primarily as a result of intra-regional capital flows. Private-sector business opportunities between the west and east coasts and... |
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No. 92 | 01 Jan 1994 |
Economic Instruments in Environmental Policy
In recent years, there has been a rapid spread of economic instruments (EIs) in environmental policies of OECD Member countries. The application of EIs has gained wider political acceptability and, in a growing number of cases, they have come to have... |
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No. 246 | 21 Sept 2005 |
Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
The aim of this Working Paper is to broaden the debate on “pro-poor growth”. An exclusive focus on the income dimension of poverty has neglected the non-income dimensions. After an examination of prominent views on the linkages between economic... |
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No. 164 | 01 Sept 2000 |
E-Commerce for Development
In this paper, we analyse the potential contribution of the Internet and its commercial application to the development process in poor countries. In historical perspective, the Internet has diffused at a far faster rate than earlier generations of... |
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No. 136 | 01 Jun 1998 |
Domestic Causes of Currency Crises
The recent currency crises in Latin America and Asia have hit countries with strong macroeconomic fundamentals but weak domestic financial systems. Private capital flows, attracted by disorderly financial liberalisation and exchange rate pegs,... |
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No. 330 | 03 Mar 2016 |
Does gender discrimination in social institutions matter for long-term growth?
This paper estimates the potential income gains associated with greater gender parity in social institutions and the cost of the current level of discrimination. Using cross-country analysis, it investigates how gender-based discrimination in social... |
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No. 286 | 26 Jan 2010 |
Does Trade Stimulate Innovation?
This paper investigates whether increased import competition leads firms to engage in incremental innovation reflected in product quality upgrading. The econometric analysis relies on a rich dataset of Chilean manufacturing firms and their products.... |
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No. 130 | 01 Dec 1997 |
Do Funded Pensions Contribute to Higher Aggregate Savings?
This paper provides statistically significant international evidence on the interaction between funded pensions and aggregate savings, after controlling for country-specific effects and for other saving determinants that have typically been... |
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No. 184 | 01 Dec 2001 |
Distribution and Growth in Latin America in an Era of Structural Reform
Latin America has long had the most unequally distributed income in the world because of land ownership patterns, development and education policies and demography, which have swelled the supply of unskilled labour and demand for skilled workers,... |
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No. 215 | 01 Nov 2003 |
Development Redux
OECD Members, like those of the European Union, have created a new culture of policy interdependence and mutual respect. This gives the lie to the idea that cultures are deterministic, backward-looking realities that prevent some countries from... |
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No. 275 | 01 Dec 2008 |
Development Aid and Portfolio Funds
This paper presents stylised facts about development aid and capital flows to developing countries. It compares their volumes and volatilities and finds that foreign aid is not the major source of finance for these countries any more, though not for... |
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No. 313 | 13 Jun 2012 |
Development Accounting: Lessons for Latin America
This paper presents development accounting exercises in Latin America using novel databases and methods to investigate the robustness of its results. While total factor productivity initially appears to be the most important driver of output per... |
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No. 257 | 01 Dec 2006 |
Developing Country Multinationals
Large Western corporations have long invested overseas to penetrate markets, seek resources, and increase efficiency. After the explosion of inward FDI to the South in the 1990s, it is now the turn of the largest companies from emerging and... |
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No. 138 | 01 Aug 1998 |
Determinants of Customs Fraud and Corruption
Corruption in customs administrations is a major problem in many African countries. Data from the period 1990-96 are used to examine several hypotheses concerning the determinants of customs fraud in Senegal and Mali. Statistical tests using... |
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Economic Regionalisation and Intra-Industry Trade
Kiichiro Fukasaku
01 Feb 1992
The present paper examines the trade development of Pacific-Asian economies during the past decade from the perspective of regional integration. Its main focus is on the development of intra-regional and intra-industry trade. It provides some...
Economic Reform in Egypt in a Changing Global Economy
Joseph Licari
01 Dec 1997
Egypt, the oldest and most populous country in the Arab world, and one of its most influential in the Southern Mediterranean region, is now moving into the global economy. During the 1990s the country has pursued successful macroeconomic...
Economic Reconstruction in Post-Conflict Transitions
Graciana del Castillo
01 Nov 2003
The purpose of this paper is to develop a strategy for PCT in the DRC, drawing from the experience of other countries that have gone through this triple transition. These experiences will be used to identify the tasks that need to be carried out in...
Economic Policy Reform and Growth Prospects in Emerging African Economies
Patrick Guillaumont, Sylviane Guillaumont Jeanneney and Aristomene Varoudakis
01 Mar 1999
We assess the prospects for growth of African economies up to the year 2010 by modelling structural and policy determinants of growth, under different scenarios for changes in the exogenous factors and economic policies which shape the projections....
Economic Policies and Sectoral Growth
Yair Mundlak, Domingo Cavallo and Roberto Domenech
01 Jun 1990
In analysing Argentina's variable growth record over the period 1913 to 1984, the study develops a comprehensive framework which disaggregates the economy into three sectors: agriculture, nonagriculture and government. The aim is to examine the...
Economic Opening and the Demand for Skills in Developing Countries
David O’Connor and Mariarosa Lunati
01 Jun 1999
A basic feature of development dynamics is the reallocation of labour from low– productivity to higher–productivity activities (generally more capital–intensive and also often more skill–intensive). The expansion of skilled labour supply that...
Economic Integration in the Pacific Region
Richard Drobnick
01 May 1992
Economic integration in the Pacific region — which includes the United States, Canada and Mexico — is rapidly occurring, primarily as a result of intra-regional capital flows. Private-sector business opportunities between the west and east coasts and...
Economic Instruments in Environmental Policy
Jean-Philippe Barde
01 Jan 1994
In recent years, there has been a rapid spread of economic instruments (EIs) in environmental policies of OECD Member countries. The application of EIs has gained wider political acceptability and, in a growing number of cases, they have come to have...
Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
Stephan Klasen
21 Sept 2005
The aim of this Working Paper is to broaden the debate on “pro-poor growth”. An exclusive focus on the income dimension of poverty has neglected the non-income dimensions. After an examination of prominent views on the linkages between economic...
E-Commerce for Development
Andrea Goldstein and David O’Connor
01 Sept 2000
In this paper, we analyse the potential contribution of the Internet and its commercial application to the development process in poor countries. In historical perspective, the Internet has diffused at a far faster rate than earlier generations of...
Domestic Causes of Currency Crises
Helmut Reisen
01 Jun 1998
The recent currency crises in Latin America and Asia have hit countries with strong macroeconomic fundamentals but weak domestic financial systems. Private capital flows, attracted by disorderly financial liberalisation and exchange rate pegs,...
Does gender discrimination in social institutions matter for long-term growth?
Gaëlle Ferrant and Alexandre Kolev
03 Mar 2016
This paper estimates the potential income gains associated with greater gender parity in social institutions and the cost of the current level of discrimination. Using cross-country analysis, it investigates how gender-based discrimination in social...
Does Trade Stimulate Innovation?
Ana Margarida Fernandes and Caroline Paunov
26 Jan 2010
This paper investigates whether increased import competition leads firms to engage in incremental innovation reflected in product quality upgrading. The econometric analysis relies on a rich dataset of Chilean manufacturing firms and their products....
Do Funded Pensions Contribute to Higher Aggregate Savings?
Jeanine Bailliu and Helmut Reisen
01 Dec 1997
This paper provides statistically significant international evidence on the interaction between funded pensions and aggregate savings, after controlling for country-specific effects and for other saving determinants that have typically been...
Distribution and Growth in Latin America in an Era of Structural Reform
Samuel A. Morley
01 Dec 2001
Latin America has long had the most unequally distributed income in the world because of land ownership patterns, development and education policies and demography, which have swelled the supply of unskilled labour and demand for skilled workers,...
Development Redux
Jorge Braga de Macedo
01 Nov 2003
OECD Members, like those of the European Union, have created a new culture of policy interdependence and mutual respect. This gives the lie to the idea that cultures are deterministic, backward-looking realities that prevent some countries from...
Development Aid and Portfolio Funds
Emmanuel Frot and Javier Santiso
01 Dec 2008
This paper presents stylised facts about development aid and capital flows to developing countries. It compares their volumes and volatilities and finds that foreign aid is not the major source of finance for these countries any more, though not for...
Development Accounting: Lessons for Latin America
Christian Daude
13 Jun 2012
This paper presents development accounting exercises in Latin America using novel databases and methods to investigate the robustness of its results. While total factor productivity initially appears to be the most important driver of output per...
Developing Country Multinationals
Dilek Aykut and Andrea Goldstein
01 Dec 2006
Large Western corporations have long invested overseas to penetrate markets, seek resources, and increase efficiency. After the explosion of inward FDI to the South in the 1990s, it is now the turn of the largest companies from emerging and...
Determinants of Customs Fraud and Corruption
David Stasavage and Cécile Daubrée
01 Aug 1998
Corruption in customs administrations is a major problem in many African countries. Data from the period 1990-96 are used to examine several hypotheses concerning the determinants of customs fraud in Senegal and Mali. Statistical tests using...