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Over the past 5 years, real energy and non-energy commodity prices have trended sharply higher. These relative price movements have had important implications for inflati[...]
2007 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |
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Conventional wisdom holds that institutional changes and trade liberalization are two main sources of growth in per capita income around the world. However, recent resear[...]
2006 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |
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From 1870 to 2000, the workweek length of employed persons decreased by 41 per cent in industrialized countries. The employment rate, employment per working age person, d[...]
2006 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |
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The author empirically assesses the effects of institutional and political factors on the need and willingness of governments to make large fiscal adjustments. In contras[...]
2006 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |
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The authors examine the investment behaviour of a sample of small, credit-constrained firms in Sri Lanka. Using a unique panel-data set, they analyze and compare the acti[...]
2003 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |
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Microfinance institutions now serve over 10 million poor households in the developing and developed world, and much of their success has been attributed to their innovati[...]
2003 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |
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After 10 years of impressive growth, India is now the fourth largest economy in the world. Yet, to date, India's impact on global commodity markets has been muted. The au[...]
2008 | Text | Staff Discussion Paper - Document d’analyse du personnel |
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The author suggests that commodity-linked bonds could provide a potential means for less-developed countries (LDCs) to raise money on the international capital markets, r[...]
2004 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |
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There is a large body of literature that studies the relationship between financial structure (that is, the degree to which the financial system is either market- or inte[...]
2002 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |
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A small-open-economy model is developed to examine how the method of food aid disbursement affects labor employment, food security and aggregate welfare, in recipient cou[...]
1998 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |
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