Documents et rapports
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Large devaluations, foreign direct investment and exports : a speculative note (anglais)
One side-effect of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-09 was the resurgence of a debate over exchange rates. The conventional wisdom dictates that real-exchange rate adjustments are needed in order to...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5619 Date du document: 1 mars 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lederman,Daniel
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Microeconomic consequences and macroeconomic causes of foreign direct investment in southern African economies (anglais)
The causes and consequences of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries remains a subject of debate among researchers and policymakers alike. The authors use international data and a new...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5416 Date du document: 1 septembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lederman,Daniel,Mengistae,Taye Alemu,Xu,Lixin
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Entrepreneurship and the extensive margin in export growth : a microeconomic accounting of Costa Rica's export growth during 1997-2007 (anglais)
The literature on the correlation between exports and economic development runs deep into the history of economic thought and permeates policy debates. This paper studies the microeconomic structure of...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5376 Date du document: 1 juillet 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lederman,Daniel,Rodriguez-Clare,Andres,Yi Xu, Daniel
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Export discoveries, diversification and barriers to entry (anglais)
The literature on the relationship between economic diversification and development has grown rapidly in recent years, partly due to the surprising finding that diversification rises with gross domestic...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5366 Date du document: 1 juillet 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Klinger,Bailey,Lederman,Daniel
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Skills, exports, and the wages of five million Latin American workers (anglais)
The returns to schooling or the skill premium is a key parameter in various literatures, including globalization and inequality and international migration. This paper explores the skill premium and its...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5246 Date du document: 1 mars 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Brambilla,Maria Irene,Dix Carneiro,Rafael,Lederman,Daniel,Porto,Guido
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Export promotion agencies revisited (anglais)
The number of national export promotion agencies has tripled over the past two decades. Although more countries made them part of their export strategy, studies criticized their efficacy in developing...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5125 Date du document: 1 novembre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lederman,Daniel,Olarreaga,Marcelo,Payton,Lucy
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The power of exports (anglais)
The authors systematically document remarkably high degrees of concentration in manufacturing exports for a sample of 151 countries over a range of 3,000 products. For every country manufacturing exports...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5081 Date du document: 1 octobre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Easterly,William R.,Reshef,Ariell,Schwenkenberg,Julia Meike
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Technology adoption and factor proportions in open economies : theory and evidence from the global computer industry (anglais)
Theories of international trade assume that all countries use similar and exogenous technologies in the production of any good. This paper relaxes this assumption. The marriage of literatures on biased...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5043 Date du document: 1 septembre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cusolito , Ana P.,Lederman,Daniel
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The business of product innovation : international empirical evidence (anglais)
It is so widely recognized that innovation is a key driver of economic growth that it is cliché to say so. This article studies product innovation by firms with data from 68 countries, covering more than...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4840 Date du document: 1 février 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lederman,Daniel
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In search of the missing resource curse (anglais)
The debate over the curse of natural resources has haunted developing countries for decades if not centuries. A review of existing empirical evidence suggests that the curse remains elusive. The fragile...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4766 Date du document: 1 novembre 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lederman,Daniel,Maloney,William F.