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No. 285 | 26 Jan 2010 |
The Emerging Middle Class in Developing Countries
The shift in global goods production towards Asia is well documented. But global consumer demand has so far been concentrated in the rich economies of the OECD. Will that also shift towards Asia as these countries get richer? This paper defines a... |
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No. 295 | 01 Jan 2011 |
The Economy of the Possible
Social protection coverage is quite low in Latin America. This situation, irrespective of the type of pension scheme, represents a challenge for public policy since these low levels of affiliation and irregular contribution histories indicate that... |
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No. 153 | 01 Oct 1999 |
The Economics and Politics of Transition to an Open Market Economy
China is considered to be a particularly successful example of a gradual approach to transition from a command economy to a market economy. This paper reviews the initial conditions, the calendar of reform steps, and the political preconditions for... |
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No. 155 | 01 Oct 1999 |
The Economics and Politics of Transition to an Open Market Economy
The paper analyses economic and political causes as well as outcomes of the sudden reversal of Indian economic policies in 1991–93, after four decades of autarky and interventionism. It argues that a changing political landscape and the emergence of... |
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No. 230 | 01 Dec 2003 |
The Currency Premium and Local-Currency Denominated Debt Costs in South Africa
One of the priorities set out in the Capital Flows Initiative of the NEPAD is to increase private capital flows to Africa, whereby providing African economies with longterm affordable and sustainable resources to finance their development. In this... |
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No. 227 | 01 Nov 2003 |
The Composite Indicator of Economic Activity in Mozambique (ICAE)
Peer review and public-private partnerships hinge on transparency. Transparency is about commonly shared knowledge about the economy, its performance, and the way policy influences it. The Composite Indicator of Economic Activity in Mozambique (ICAE)... |
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No. 254 | 01 Aug 2006 |
The Coherence of Trade Flows and Trade Policies with Aid and Investment Flows
This paper provides a theoretical and empirical overview of the relationships among trade, aid and FDI, both in terms of policy interactions and interactions among resource flows. Aid flows from one country to another can have positive or negative... |
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No. 41 | 01 Aug 1991 |
The Changing Nature of IMF Conditionality
In the terminology of the International Monetary Fund, "conditionality" refers to the policies the Fund expects a member to follow in order to be able to avail itself of credit from the Fund (Gold, 1979). Over the years, major changes in the... |
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No. 128 | 01 Dec 1997 |
The Case of Missing Foreign Investment in the Southern Mediterranean
The developing countries of the Southern Mediterranean (SOM) have missed the extraordinary surge of private international investment in recent years. Although the SOM region was an important destination for foreign direct investments, its share of... |
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No. 308 | 01 Mar 2012 |
Technological Upgrading in China and India
This paper studies sources of technological upgrading in China and India. What is striking about the impressive growth of China and (to a lesser degree) India is that they export products associated with a high productivity level that is much higher... |
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No. 294 | 25 Oct 2010 |
Taxation and More Representation?
Is the social contract in Latin America broken? Many authors have suggested this is the case, given the high levels of inequality, the low levels of taxation and the low quality of public services observed in the region. This paper analyses... |
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No. 12 | 01 Feb 1990 |
Tax Revenue Implications of the Real Exchange Rate
The variety of channels through which devaluation of the exchange rate impacts on real tax receipts, calls for empirical clarification. This paper should be seen as a first attempt towards empirical evidence. It establishes the causal relationships... |
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No. 277 | 30 Mar 2009 |
Taking Stock of the Credit Crunch
This paper examines how the different forms of development finance for low-income countries are likely to be affected by the global financial crisis, principally through reductions in remittances, aid flows and FDI. It argues that the channels of... |
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No. 61 | 01 Apr 1992 |
Taiwanese Corporations in Globalisation and Regionalisation
Many of Taiwan's highly export-oriented enterprises are small and medium-sized, and many are in a relatively good position to cope with, even to take advantage of, globalisation. Because they generally do not have strong in-house R&D, and often do... |
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No. 132 | 01 Feb 1998 |
Sustainable and Excessive Current Account Deficits
Large current account deficits are often assumed to play an important role in the propagation of financial crises in emerging markets in receipt of heavy private capital inflows. This paper reaches some major conclusions. First, the Lawson Doctrine —... |
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No. 146 | 01 Mar 1999 |
Structural Policies for International Competitiveness in Manufacturing
This study presents the main developments in the manufacturing industry in Cameroon, based on firm-level data covering the 1980-95 period. The emphasis is on structural factors of competitiveness. A production function and an export function are... |
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No. 76 | 01 Aug 1992 |
Structural Adjustment and the Institutional Dimensions of Agricultural Research and Development in Brazil
Structural adjustment, liberalisation and the pressures of technological change are having major impact on the institutional organisation of the agro-industrial sector. In industrialised countries, the private sector is positioned to play the... |
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No. 70 | 01 Jun 1992 |
Structural Adjustment and Moroccan Agriculture
This paper reviews the process of agricultural policy reforms in Morocco in the 1980's, with particular emphasis on the cereals and sugar sub-sectors.Agricultural policy is reviewed in historical perspective, to show that the liberalisation process... |
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No. 84 | 01 Mar 1993 |
Striving for International Competitiveness
Electronics has become critically important in every country's attempt to restructure or build its competitiveness. The developments in electronics have given rise to an industry with an unprecedented growth record in terms of sales and exports,... |
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No. 262 | 01 Jul 2007 |
Strengthening Productive Capacities in Emerging Economies through Internationalisation
The emergence of a “second wave” of developing-country multinational enterprises (MNEs) in a variety of industries is one of the characterizing features of globalisation. These new MNEs did not delay their internationalisation until they were large,... |
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The Emerging Middle Class in Developing Countries
Homi Kharas
26 Jan 2010
The shift in global goods production towards Asia is well documented. But global consumer demand has so far been concentrated in the rich economies of the OECD. Will that also shift towards Asia as these countries get richer? This paper defines a...
The Economy of the Possible
Rita Da Costa, Juan Ramón de Laiglesia, Emmanuelle Martínez and Ángel Melguizo
01 Jan 2011
Social protection coverage is quite low in Latin America. This situation, irrespective of the type of pension scheme, represents a challenge for public policy since these low levels of affiliation and irregular contribution histories indicate that...
The Economics and Politics of Transition to an Open Market Economy
Wing Thye Woo
01 Oct 1999
China is considered to be a particularly successful example of a gradual approach to transition from a command economy to a market economy. This paper reviews the initial conditions, the calendar of reform steps, and the political preconditions for...
The Economics and Politics of Transition to an Open Market Economy
Ashok V. Desai
01 Oct 1999
The paper analyses economic and political causes as well as outcomes of the sudden reversal of Indian economic policies in 1991–93, after four decades of autarky and interventionism. It argues that a changing political landscape and the emergence of...
The Currency Premium and Local-Currency Denominated Debt Costs in South Africa
Martin Grandes, Marcel Peter and Nicolas Pinaud
01 Dec 2003
One of the priorities set out in the Capital Flows Initiative of the NEPAD is to increase private capital flows to Africa, whereby providing African economies with longterm affordable and sustainable resources to finance their development. In this...
The Composite Indicator of Economic Activity in Mozambique (ICAE)
Roberto J. Tibana
01 Nov 2003
Peer review and public-private partnerships hinge on transparency. Transparency is about commonly shared knowledge about the economy, its performance, and the way policy influences it. The Composite Indicator of Economic Activity in Mozambique (ICAE)...
The Coherence of Trade Flows and Trade Policies with Aid and Investment Flows
Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann and Thierry Verdier
01 Aug 2006
This paper provides a theoretical and empirical overview of the relationships among trade, aid and FDI, both in terms of policy interactions and interactions among resource flows. Aid flows from one country to another can have positive or negative...
The Changing Nature of IMF Conditionality
Jacques J. Polak
01 Aug 1991
In the terminology of the International Monetary Fund, "conditionality" refers to the policies the Fund expects a member to follow in order to be able to avail itself of credit from the Fund (Gold, 1979). Over the years, major changes in the...
The Case of Missing Foreign Investment in the Southern Mediterranean
Peter A. Petri
01 Dec 1997
The developing countries of the Southern Mediterranean (SOM) have missed the extraordinary surge of private international investment in recent years. Although the SOM region was an important destination for foreign direct investments, its share of...
Technological Upgrading in China and India
Jaejoon Woo
01 Mar 2012
This paper studies sources of technological upgrading in China and India. What is striking about the impressive growth of China and (to a lesser degree) India is that they export products associated with a high productivity level that is much higher...
Taxation and More Representation?
Christian Daude and Ángel Melguizo
25 Oct 2010
Is the social contract in Latin America broken? Many authors have suggested this is the case, given the high levels of inequality, the low levels of taxation and the low quality of public services observed in the region. This paper analyses...
Tax Revenue Implications of the Real Exchange Rate
Virginia Fierro and Helmut Reisen
01 Feb 1990
The variety of channels through which devaluation of the exchange rate impacts on real tax receipts, calls for empirical clarification. This paper should be seen as a first attempt towards empirical evidence. It establishes the causal relationships...
Taking Stock of the Credit Crunch
Andrew Mold, Sebastian Paulo and Annalisa Prizon
30 Mar 2009
This paper examines how the different forms of development finance for low-income countries are likely to be affected by the global financial crisis, principally through reductions in remittances, aid flows and FDI. It argues that the channels of...
Taiwanese Corporations in Globalisation and Regionalisation
Gee San
01 Apr 1992
Many of Taiwan's highly export-oriented enterprises are small and medium-sized, and many are in a relatively good position to cope with, even to take advantage of, globalisation. Because they generally do not have strong in-house R&D, and often do...
Sustainable and Excessive Current Account Deficits
Helmut Reisen
01 Feb 1998
Large current account deficits are often assumed to play an important role in the propagation of financial crises in emerging markets in receipt of heavy private capital inflows. This paper reaches some major conclusions. First, the Lawson Doctrine —...
Structural Policies for International Competitiveness in Manufacturing
Ludvig Söderling
01 Mar 1999
This study presents the main developments in the manufacturing industry in Cameroon, based on firm-level data covering the 1980-95 period. The emphasis is on structural factors of competitiveness. A production function and an export function are...
Structural Adjustment and the Institutional Dimensions of Agricultural Research and Development in Brazil
John Wilkinson and Bernardo Sorj
01 Aug 1992
Structural adjustment, liberalisation and the pressures of technological change are having major impact on the institutional organisation of the agro-industrial sector. In industrialised countries, the private sector is positioned to play the...
Structural Adjustment and Moroccan Agriculture
Jonathan Kydd and Sophie Thoyer
01 Jun 1992
This paper reviews the process of agricultural policy reforms in Morocco in the 1980's, with particular emphasis on the cereals and sugar sub-sectors.Agricultural policy is reviewed in historical perspective, to show that the liberalisation process...
Striving for International Competitiveness
Jan Maarten de Vet
01 Mar 1993
Electronics has become critically important in every country's attempt to restructure or build its competitiveness. The developments in electronics have given rise to an industry with an unprecedented growth record in terms of sales and exports,...
Strengthening Productive Capacities in Emerging Economies through Internationalisation
Federico Bonaglia and Andrea Goldstein
01 Jul 2007
The emergence of a “second wave” of developing-country multinational enterprises (MNEs) in a variety of industries is one of the characterizing features of globalisation. These new MNEs did not delay their internationalisation until they were large,...