Sélectionner | Date Date | Titre Titre | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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... |
|||
No. 270 | 01 Aug 2008 |
The Macro Management of Commodity Booms
Strong growth in China and India has led to improvements in raw-material exporting countries' terms of trade and attracted complementary finance. The long-term challenge for these countries, where institutions are often fragile, is to avoid the... |
|||
No. 271 | 01 Jul 2008 |
Report on Informal Employment in Romania
Informal employment is one of the key features of the Romanian labour market and the main concerns of the Romanian government. Informal employment is not new in Romania. This study attempts to shed light on the issue of informal work in Romania. |
|||
No. 269 | 03 Apr 2008 |
Lending to the Poorest Countries
One of the particular features of poor countries’ economies is their volatility, due mostly to their dependence on commodities. The paper shows that this volatility is a prime factor behind the debt crises of the poorest countries. It advocates the... |
|||
No. 268 | 22 Feb 2008 |
Prudent versus Imprudent Lending to Africa
Over recent years, a number of emerging creditors have increased their aid and lending to Africa’s Low-Income Countries (LICs). This has fed worries that new official lenders may be undoing years of international efforts to rein in over-indebtedness... |
|||
No. 267 | 01 Jan 2008 |
Household Structures and Savings
This paper examines the relationship between household structures, the institutions that shape them and physical and human capital accumulation using household and individual data from China, Indonesia, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Household structures... |
|||
No. 266 | 01 Jan 2008 |
Informal Employment Re-loaded
This paper provides a fresh look at informal employment, a phenomenon of renewed interest to policy makers and researchers alike. It finds that informal employment is likely to stay, is sometimes a voluntary choice, can offer better working... |
|||
No. 265 | 01 Jan 2008 |
Private Sector participation and Regulatory Reform in Water Supply
The southern Mediterranean region faces one of the most important water crises in the world. The combination of aridity, foreign dependency, climate change, misallocation of the resources and escalating human demand make water supply a primary issue... |
|||
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... |
|||
No. 263 | 01 Nov 2007 |
Banking on Development
Over the past decade we have witnessed a double convergence. Aid donors have developed a growing interest in the private sector while private banks have set about creating corporate social responsibility programs, sustainable lending and microfinance... |
|||
No. 261 | 24 Jul 2007 |
Privatisation in the Meda Region
This paper builds on a new database (PRIVMEDA) in order to assess the progress of the privatisation process in the MEDA countries of Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey. The first part of the paper... |
|||
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,... |
|||
No. 260 | 01 Apr 2007 |
New Strategies for Emerging Domestic Sovereign Bond Markets
The forces shaping the revolution in banking and capital markets have radically changed the financial landscape during the past three decades. A remarkable feature of this changing new landscape has been the astonishing rate of internationalisation... |
|||
No. 259 | 01 Mar 2007 |
Banking on Democracy
Private capital movements have risen in recent decades, and bank flows have been part of this story. Some empirical studies have analysed the political drivers of private international liquidity, but paradoxically very few have looked at the... |
|||
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... |
|||
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... |
|||
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... |
|||
No. 255 | 01 Aug 2006 |
Structures familiales, transferts et épargne : Examen
This study shows a new approach concerning the concept of family in developing countries. This new approach notably takes into account numerous family related constraints placed upon members of a household. This allows us to analyse more effectively... |
|||
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... |
|||
No. 253 | 31 Jul 2006 |
Policy Coherence for Development
Increasing the flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) to developing countries is a cornerstone of new international development commitments. Accordingly, this paper reviews the state of knowledge regarding i) the factors that lead firms to build a... |
- Accueil
- Périodiques
- Documents de travail du Centre de développement de l'OCDE
Documents de travail du Centre de développement de l'OCDE
Anglais, Français
- ISSN : 18151949 (en ligne)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/18151949
81 - 100 of 351 results
Wall Street and Elections in Latin American Emerging Economies
Sebastián Nieto Parra et 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...
The Macro Management of Commodity Booms
Rolando Avendaño, Helmut Reisen et Javier Santiso
01 Aug 2008
Strong growth in China and India has led to improvements in raw-material exporting countries' terms of trade and attracted complementary finance. The long-term challenge for these countries, where institutions are often fragile, is to avoid the...
Report on Informal Employment in Romania
Jante Parlevliet et Theodora Xenogiani
01 Jul 2008
Informal employment is one of the key features of the Romanian labour market and the main concerns of the Romanian government. Informal employment is not new in Romania. This study attempts to shed light on the issue of informal work in Romania.
Lending to the Poorest Countries
Daniel Cohen, Hélène Djoufelkit-Cottenet, Pierre Jacquet et Cécile Valadier
03 Apr 2008
One of the particular features of poor countries’ economies is their volatility, due mostly to their dependence on commodities. The paper shows that this volatility is a prime factor behind the debt crises of the poorest countries. It advocates the...
Prudent versus Imprudent Lending to Africa
Helmut Reisen et Sokhna Ndoye
22 Feb 2008
Over recent years, a number of emerging creditors have increased their aid and lending to Africa’s Low-Income Countries (LICs). This has fed worries that new official lenders may be undoing years of international efforts to rein in over-indebtedness...
Household Structures and Savings
Juan Ramón de Laiglesia et Christian Morrisson
01 Jan 2008
This paper examines the relationship between household structures, the institutions that shape them and physical and human capital accumulation using household and individual data from China, Indonesia, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Household structures...
Informal Employment Re-loaded
Johannes Jütting, Jante Parlevliet et Theodora Xenogiani
01 Jan 2008
This paper provides a fresh look at informal employment, a phenomenon of renewed interest to policy makers and researchers alike. It finds that informal employment is likely to stay, is sometimes a voluntary choice, can offer better working...
Private Sector participation and Regulatory Reform in Water Supply
Edouard Pérard
01 Jan 2008
The southern Mediterranean region faces one of the most important water crises in the world. The combination of aridity, foreign dependency, climate change, misallocation of the resources and escalating human demand make water supply a primary issue...
Fiscal Decentralisation, Chinese Style
Hiroko Uchimura et 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...
Banking on Development
Javier Rodríguez et Javier Santiso
01 Nov 2007
Over the past decade we have witnessed a double convergence. Aid donors have developed a growing interest in the private sector while private banks have set about creating corporate social responsibility programs, sustainable lending and microfinance...
Privatisation in the Meda Region
Céline Kauffmann et Lucia Wegner
24 Jul 2007
This paper builds on a new database (PRIVMEDA) in order to assess the progress of the privatisation process in the MEDA countries of Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey. The first part of the paper...
Strengthening Productive Capacities in Emerging Economies through Internationalisation
Federico Bonaglia et 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,...
New Strategies for Emerging Domestic Sovereign Bond Markets
Hans J. Blommestein et Javier Santiso
01 Apr 2007
The forces shaping the revolution in banking and capital markets have radically changed the financial landscape during the past three decades. A remarkable feature of this changing new landscape has been the astonishing rate of internationalisation...
Banking on Democracy
Javier Rodríguez et Javier Santiso
01 Mar 2007
Private capital movements have risen in recent decades, and bank flows have been part of this story. Some empirical studies have analysed the political drivers of private international liquidity, but paradoxically very few have looked at the...
The Usual Suspects
Sebastián Nieto Parra et 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...
Developing Country Multinationals
Dilek Aykut et 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...
Ulysses, the Sirens and the Art of Navigation
Javier Santiso et 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...
Structures familiales, transferts et épargne : Examen
Christian Morrisson
01 Aug 2006
This study shows a new approach concerning the concept of family in developing countries. This new approach notably takes into account numerous family related constraints placed upon members of a household. This allows us to analyse more effectively...
The Coherence of Trade Flows and Trade Policies with Aid and Investment Flows
Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann et 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...
Policy Coherence for Development
Thierry Mayer
31 Jul 2006
Increasing the flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) to developing countries is a cornerstone of new international development commitments. Accordingly, this paper reviews the state of knowledge regarding i) the factors that lead firms to build a...