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- a country, often a producer of primary goods such as cotton or rubber, which cannot generate investment income to stimulate growth and which possesses a national income that is vulnerable...
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- How Developing Countries are Developing Medical Tourism
- The first time I heard about US folks outsourcing their heart surgery or hip replacement to doctors in India or China, it sounded crazy. But clearly the rise of "medical tourism" -- traveling to different countries to have a medical procedure done less expensively, more expediently, and in some cases...
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- Audit of Therapeutic Interventions in Inpatient Children Using Two Scores: Are they Evidence-Based in Developing Countries?
- This white paper work involves performing a study to determine the proportion of evidence-based therapeutic interventions in a paediatric referral hospital of a developing country. It suggests necessary method and results for achieving this goal. It also gives conclusion as most interventions were inappropriate, despite the availability of effective therapy...
- White papers 2004-12-29
- Do Good by Reading Good Books
- 800CEORead is offering a Three for $30 deal -- for $30, you get three books, including one that was at least a finalist for its Best Books of 2008 list. In turn, it donates the money to Room to Read, a well-regarded educational charity which works in developing countries. by...
- Blog posts 2009-01-23
- Exchange Rate Policy and Sovereign Bond Spreads in Developing Countries
- This report tests the hypothesis of a link between exchange rate policy and sovereign bonds. The main findings are: real exchange rate overvaluation significantly increases sovereign bond issue probability and raises bond spreads; spreads and the likelihood of issuing bonds depend on the exchange rate regime; exchange rate misalignment under...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- Sovereign Borrowing by Developing Countries: What Determines Market Access?
- What determines the ability of governments from developing countries to access international credit markets? This article examines this question using detailed data on sovereign bond issuances and public syndicated bank loans since 1982. It finds that traditional measures of a country's links with the rest of the world (such as...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- Developing Countries and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement
- It has long been observed that developing countries made scant use of dispute settlement under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATT. The underlying presumption, of course, is that developing countries were especially ill-served by GATT's diplomacy, and are better poised to benefit from the WTO's more legalistic architecture....
- White papers 2003-10-03
- Tax Structure in Developing Countries: Many Puzzles and a Possible Explanation
- Tax policies seen in developing countries are puzzling on many dimensions. To begin with, revenue/GDP is surprisingly small compared with that in developed economies. Taxes on consumption are important, but effective tax rates vary dramatically by firm, with many firms avoiding taxes entirely by operating through cash in the informal...
- White papers 2005-04-05
- Food Safety Issues, Trade and WTO Rules: A Developing Country Perspective
- The SPS Agreement and the related WTO dispute settlement mechanism are an important first step in strengthening the global trade architecture, bringing in greater transparency and orderly conditions to world food trade. However, implementation of the new trade rules has turned out to be a more complex task than the...
- White papers 2003-07-15
- More Favorable and Differential Treatment of Developing Countries: Toward a New Approach in the World Trade Organization
- This paper discusses the options that could be considered in the World Trade Organization WTO to provide more favorable treatment-so-called special and differential treatment SDT-to small and low-income countries. It argues that there is a need both for differentiation across WTO members and for steps that would benefit all developing...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- Free Trade or Fair Trade? An Enquiry into the Causes of Failure in Recent Trade Negotiations
- Focusing on frictions between developing countries and industrial economies in the particular area of trade in manufactured goods, the purpose of this paper is to argue that the failure of the negotiations is related to a number of fallacies and contradictions surrounding the concepts and practices of universal trade liberalization...
- White papers 2000-12-01
- The Effects of Exchange Rate Fluctuations on Output and Prices: Evidence From Developing Countries
- The paper examines the effects of exchange rate fluctuations on real output and the price level in a sample of 33 developing countries. The theoretical model decomposes movements in the exchange rate into anticipated and unanticipated components. Unanticipated currency fluctuations help to determine aggregate demand through exports, imports, and the...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- China's Integration Into the World Economy: Implications for Developing Countries
- This paper examines the implications of China's WTO accession for the other developing countries in the context of the country's long term process of growth and opening up. The paper argues that China's integration into the world economy imposes adjustment cost on its trading partners in the short to medium...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- The Burden of Non Communicable Diseases in Developing Countries
- Non communicable diseases are more and more prevalent in developing countries where they double the burden of infective diseases. If the present trend is maintained, the health systems in low-and middle-income countries will be unable to support the burden of disease. Prominent causes for heart disease, diabetes, cancer and pulmonary...
- White papers 2005-01-14
- The Global Automotive Industry Value Chain: What Prospects for Upgrading by Developing Countries
- The paper opens by mapping the changes in the global auto industry in the 1990s, showing how the rapid growth in sales and production between 1990 and 1997 came largely from the emerging markets rather than the Triad regions (North America, the European Union, and Japan). The paper then describes...
- White papers 2003-08-11
- Tax Policy for Emerging Markets: Developing Countries
- This paper discusses important tax policy issues facing developing countries today. It views tax policy from both the macroeconomic perspective, which focuses on broad questions such as the level and composition of tax revenue, and the microeconomic perspective, which focuses on certain design aspects of selected major taxes, such as...
- White papers 2000-06-01
- Real Exchange Rates in Developing Countries: Are Balassa-Samuelson Effects Present?
- There is little empirical research on whether Balassa-Samuelson effects can explain the long-run behavior of real exchange rates in developing countries. This paper presents new evidence on this issue based on a panel data sample of 16 developing countries. The paper finds that the traded-nontraded productivity differential is a significant...
- White papers 2004-10-01
- Economic Development, Competition Policy, and the World Trade Organization
- The focus of this paper is on developing country interests, i.e., it asks what type of international cooperation in the WTO could support most effectively national efforts to promote economic development. To be development relevant, any antitrust-related disciplines should promote the interests of poor consumers in developing countries. It analyzes...
- White papers 2002-10-01
- Translating Research Into Policy and Practice in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Magnesium Sulphate for Pre-Eclampsia
- The evidence base for improving reproductive health continues to grow. However, concerns remain that the translation of this evidence into appropriate policies is partial and slow. The objective of this study was to examine the factors that might affect the translation of Randomized Controlled Trial RCT findings into policies and...
- White papers 2005-11-01
- Can Context Justify an Ethical Double Standard for Clinical Research in Developing Countries?
- The design of clinical research deserves special caution so as to safeguard the rights of participating individuals. The paper depicts that a breach in the consensus of how to apply these ethical standards to research in developing countries helped to reduce maternal to child transmission of HIV-1. The design of...
- White papers 2005-07-26
- Distortions to World Trade: Impacts on Agricultural Markets and Farm Incomes
- The paper provides estimates of the impact that removing all merchandise trade distortions would have on food and agricultural production, trade, and incomes. Using the latest versions of the Global Trade Analysis Project GTAP database and the World Bank's LINKAGE model of the global economy (projected to 2015), their results...
- White papers 2005-10-01
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