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- Finance and economic development : policy choices for developing countries
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November 23, 2007 12:42
This paper argues that governments play an important role in building effective financial systems and discusses different policy options to make finance work for development.
- Do global trade distortions still harm developing country farmers ?
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November 23, 2007 12:44
The authors estimate the impact of global merchandise trade distortions and services regulations on agricultural value added in various countries.
- Growth trends in the developing world : country forecasts and determinants
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November 23, 2007 12:52
The authors present real per capita GDP growth forecasts for all developing countries for the period 2005-14. For 55 of these countries, representing major world regions and accounting for close to 80 percent of the developing world's GDP, they forecast the growth effects of the main forces underpinning growth, assuming that these evolve following past trends.
- Foreign bank participation and crises in developing countries
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November 23, 2007 13:10
This paper describes the recent trends in foreign bank ownership in developing countries, summarizes the existing evidence on the causes and implications of foreign bank presence, and reexamines the link between banking crises and foreign bank participation.
- Financing health services in developing countries : an agenda for reform
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November 23, 2007 14:40
This report discusses several different approaches that support reforming health care services in developing countries.
- Horizontal inequalities, political environment, and civil conflict : evidence from 55 developing countries, 1986-2003
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November 23, 2007 14:43
This paper investigates the relationship between horizontal inequalities, political environment, and civil war in developing countries. Based on national survey data from 55 countries it calculates welfare inequalities between ethnic, religious, and regional groups for each country using indicators such as household assets and educational levels.
- Do workers' remittances promote financial development ?
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November 23, 2007 14:45
Workers' remittances to developing countries have become the second largest type of flows after foreign direct investment. The authors use data on workers' remittance flows to 99 developing countries from 1975-2003 to study the impact of remittances on financial sector development.
- Workers' remittances to developing countries : a survey with central banks on selected public policy issues
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November 23, 2007 14:50
This paper presents the findings of a survey conducted by the World Bank of central banks in 40 developing countries across different regions in the world. The survey focused on the following topics: (1) coverage of national statistics on remittances, (2) cost of transferring and delivering remittances, (3) regulatory regime for remittance transactions, and (4) efforts of developing countries to channel remittance flows through formal financial institutions.
- Health insurance impacts on health and non-medical consumption in a developing country
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November 23, 2007 14:54
The authors examine the effects of the introduction of Vietnam's health insurance (VHI) program on health outcomes, health care utilization, and non-medical household consumption.
- On the contribution of demographic change to aggregate poverty measures for the developing world
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November 23, 2007 15:07
The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have higher death rates-accounts for 10-30 percent of the developing world's trend rate of "$1 a day" poverty reduction in the 1990s. However, in a neighborhood of plausible estimates, differential fertility-whereby poorer people tend also to have higher birth rates-has had a more than offsetting poverty-increasing effect.
- Sowing and reaping: institutional quality and project outcomes in developing countries
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November 23, 2007 17:14
The authors use the success rate of World Bank-financed projects in the 1990s, as determined by the Operations Evaluation Department, as their dependent variable. Using instrumental variables estimation, the authors find that existence of high-quality institutions in a recipient country raises the probability that aid will be used effectively.
- Infrastructure services in developing countries : access, quality, costs and policy reform
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November 23, 2007 17:15
The authors review the evidence on the state of infrastructure in the developing world, emphasizing the investment needs and the emerging policy issues. While their assessment is seriously constrained by data gaps, they provide useful insights on the main challenges ahead, emphasizing that, in addition to the widely discussed access problems, the poorest also face major affordability and service quality issues which were not well addressed by the reforms of the 1990s.
- Infrastructure and public utilities privatization in developing countries
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November 26, 2007 16:40
The paper analyzes governments' tradeoff between fiscal benefits and consumer surplus in privatization reforms of noncompetitive industries in developing countries. Under privatization, the control rights are transferred to private interests so that public subsidies decline.
- Is European integration bad news for developing countries? A comment on Hughes Hallett
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November 26, 2007 16:59
This article examines Mr. Hughes Hallett's article, "The Impact of EC-92 on Trade in Developing Countries", and challenges the reasoning of his views.
- The World Trade Organization and antidumping in developing countries
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November 26, 2007 17:01
This paper exploits newly available data to examine the pattern of actual industrial use of antidumping in nine of the major "new user" developing countries - Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru, Turkey and Venezuela.
- The World Trade Organization and antidumping in developing countries
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November 26, 2007 17:17
This paper exploits newly available data to examine the pattern of actual industrial use of antidumping in nine of the major "new user" developing countries - Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru, Turkey and Venezuela.
- A framework for thinking about enterprise formalization policies in developing countries
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November 26, 2007 17:23
This paper emphasizes the coordination and credibility issues involved in promoting formalization and discusses possible institutional solutions, among them business associations that make the benefits of membership dependent on compliance, information sharing arrangements among government agencies and improvements in the quality of public management.
- The cost of compliance with product standards for firms in developing countries: an econometric study
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November 26, 2007 17:28
This paper develops econometric models to estimate the incremental production costs of enterprises in several developing nations associated with conforming to standards and technical regulations imposed by major importing countries.
- Trade preferences and differential treatment of developing countries : a selective survey
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November 26, 2007 17:28
The authors devote attention to a number of recent contributions that discuss (1) whether there is a continued need for SDT, and (2) how this might be designed from both a development (recipient) objective and from the perspective of the trading system more generally.
- Trade preferences to small developing countries and the welfare costs of lost multilateral liberalization
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November 26, 2007 17:33
The proliferation of preferential trade liberalization over the past 20 years has raised the question of whether it slows down multilateral trade liberalization. Recent theoretical and empirical evidence indicates this is the case even for unilateral preferences that industrial countries provide to small and poor countries but there is no estimate of the resulting welfare costs. To avoid this stumbling block effect the authors suggest replacing unilateral preferences by a fixed import subsidy.
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