Does trade liberalization reduce child mortality in low- and middle-income countries? A synthetic control analysis of 36 policy experiments, 1963-2005. [PDF]
Soc Sci Med, 2018 Barlow P.
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Moral Economies of Debt Forgiveness and Enforcement in Postcrisis Iceland
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Who deserves financial relief in times of crisis, and on what grounds? The 2008 collapse of Iceland's banking system prompted state intervention to mitigate household indebtedness, including forbearance, pension withdrawals, repayment adjustments, and debt reductions.
Timothy Heffernan
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Agricultural Trade Liberalization: Assessing the Consequences for Developing Countries [PDF]
Recent analyses suggest that the impact of agricultural trade liberalization on developing countries will be very uneven. Simulations suggest that the effects of agricultural trade liberalization will be small, overall, and are likely to be negative for ...
Bureau, Jean-Christophe +2 more
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Do Product Market Reforms Work? Assessing Regulatory Changes Impacting Competition
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We create a new dataset that characterizes studies of product market reforms implemented from 1932 to 2011. We examine the size and origins of differences in estimated impacts based on an OECD classification scheme for potentially competitive restrictions of regulation. The median impact from switching to a pro‐competitive environment is a 19%
Sean F. Ennis, Selvin Thanacoody
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Effects of trade liberalization on the global decoupling and decomposition of CO2 emissions from economic growth. [PDF]
HeliyonBaajike FB +3 more
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Regulation, Taxation, and Resources: Unpacking Greenhouse Gas Emission Drivers Across G7 Economies
Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Advanced economies are under growing pressure to downscale greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions without undermining growth, yet G7 (Group of Seven) nations, representing almost 10% of the world's population, still generate one quarter of global GHGs.
Mohammad Imtiaz Hossain +5 more
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Export liberalization and the outward oriented trade regime [PDF]
The purpose of this essay is to re-assess the case of outward- oriented trade regimes in the process of economic development. The nature of outward-orientation is briefly explained in the next section.
Donges, Juergen B., Hiemenz, Ulrich
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Do Financialization and Innovation Enhance Environmental Sustainability in Sub‐Saharan Africa?
Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study addresses the perception of Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) as a region with limited financial capabilities and technological advancement to enhance environmental sustainability. Conducted across 24 SSA countries from 2000 to 2021, the research employs instrumental IV and panel quantile regressions.
Emmanuel Kwaku Manu +2 more
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Welfare Impact of Trade Liberalization [PDF]
This paper constructs a static Applied General Equilibrium Model and analyzes the distributional impact of trade reforms. To calibrate our model, we work with the Household Expenditure Survey to disaggregate household groups by income, age, and skill ...
Sang-Wook (Stanley) Cho, Julian P. Diaz
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Understanding natal emigration in group‐living carnivores
Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.Dispersal is a key ecological and evolutionary process, yet drivers of variation in emigration under human‐modified conditions remain understudied. Using a novel genetic approach applied to harvested grey wolves in Idaho, USA, we found that prey availability and population density shape natal emigration patterns in a cooperative breeder.
Kathleen M. Petersen +3 more
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