The Costs and Benefits of Duty-Free, Quota-Free Market Access for Poor Countries: Who and What Matters [PDF]
This paper examines the potential benefits and costs of providing duty-free, quota-free market access to the least developed countries (LDCs), and the effects of extending eligibility to other small and poor countries. Using the MIRAGE computable general
Antoine Bouët, David Laborde Debucquet,Elisa Dienesch, and Kimberly Elliott
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MBOAT1 homozygous missense variant causes nonobstructive azoospermia. [PDF]
Asian J Androl, 2022 Wan YY +7 more
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The Hong Kong model of industrialization [PDF]
Hong Kong is an interesting case study of economic development for two reasons: (1) the Colony is one of the few successful cases of industrialization and economic development among contemporary less developed countries; and (2) it closely resembles and ...
Riedel, James
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Developing country lending and current banking conditions [PDF]
An examination of the evolutionary stages of the debt problem in developing countries, with a discussion of how U.S. banks and financial markets have adjusted to accommodate it and some proposed solutions to the problem.Debts, External ; Developing ...
Walker F. Todd
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The outlook for the U.S. banking industry : what does the experience of the 1980s and 1990s tell us? [PDF]
In many respects, the 1980s appear to be the worst decade in banking since the Great Depression, while the 1990s could be rated as the best. Over 1,100 commercial banks failed or needed FDIC assistance during the 1980s, and significant parts of the ...
Kenneth Spong, Richard J. Sullivan
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Why aredeveloping countries so slow in adopting new technologies ? the aggregate and complementary impact of micro distortions [PDF]
This paper explores how developmental and regulatory impediments to resource reallocation limit the ability of developing countries to adopt new technologies.
Bergoeing, Raphael +2 more
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On boxes, contents, and users [PDF]
An important component of the current debate about agriculture trade negotiations is whether further liberalization of trade and agricultural policies may help or hinder food security in WTO member countries.
Diaz-Bonilla, Eugenio +2 more
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International competition policy and economic development [PDF]
During the past half century many nations have adopted policies whose function is to discourage cartels and other restrictive practices. Industrialized nations led the movement toward pro-competition policies, but more recently, developing nations have ...
Scherer, Frederic Michael
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Ongoing Negotiations on the GATS FSA: Bangladesh’s Concerns and Position [PDF]
The paper is based on the Financial Services Agreement under the GATS which was made as a result of global negotiations on financial services, including areas such as insurance, merchant and consumer banking. The study is aimed to understand Bangladesh’s
Dr. Ananya Raihan
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Principal-agent Incentives, Excess Caution, and Market Inefficiency: Evidence From Utility Regulation [PDF]
Regulators and firms often use incentive schemes to attract skillful agents and to induce them to put forth effort in pursuit of the principals' goals. Incentive schemes that reward skill and effort, however, may also punish agents for adverse outcomes ...
Meghan Busse +2 more
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