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  • Regional integration and natural resources : who benefits ? evidence from MENA (English)

    This paper builds on theoretical predictions that show that gains from regional integration are unevenly distributed between resource rich and poor countries. It explores the effects of different integration...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5970 Document Date: February 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Carrere,Celine,Gourdon,Julien,Olarreaga,Marcelo

  • Export diversification : what’s behind the hump? (English)

    The paper explores the evolution of export diversification patterns along the economic development path. Using a large database with 156 countries over 19 years at the HS6 level of disaggregation (4,991...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 94665 Document Date: May 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cadot,Olivier,Carrere,Celine,Strauss-Kahn,Vanessa

  • OECD imports : diversification of suppliers and quality search (English)

    This paper explores the evolution of OECD imports over time, measuring their concentration across origin countries at the product level. The authors find evidence of diversification followed, in the very...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5627 Document Date: April 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cadot,Olivier,Carrere,Celine,Strauss-Kahn,Vanessa

  • Distance and regionalization of trade for low-income countries (English)

    The "distance effect" measuring the elasticity of trade flows to distance has been rising since the early 1970s in a host of studies based on the gravity model, leading observers to call it the "distance...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5214 Document Date: February 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Carrere,Celine,De Melo,Jaime A. P.,Wilson, John

  • Fiscal spending and economic performance : some stylized facts (English)

    This paper complements the cross-country approach by examining the correlates of growth acceleration in per capita gross domestic product around "significant" public expenditure episodes by reorganizing...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4452 Document Date: December 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Carrere,Celine,De Melo,Jaime A. P.

  • The World Bank economic review 19 (3) (English)

    Tracking NAFTA's shadow 10 years on -- introduction to the symposium, by Daniel Lederman and Luis Serven. Spatial dimensions of trade liberalization and economic convergence -- Mexico 1985-2002, by Patricio...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 35338 Document Date: September 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Aroca, Patricia,Bosch Mossi,Mariano,Cadot,Olivier,Carrere,Celine,Lederman,Daniel,Maloney,William F.,Portugal Perez,Luis Alberto,Serven,Luis,De Melo,Jaime A. P.

  • The World Bank economic review 19 (1) (English)

    Top Indian Incomes, 1922-2000 by Abhijit Banerjee and Thomas Piketty; Can We Discern the Effect of Globalization on Income Distribution? Evidence from Household Surveys by Branko Milanovic; Financing Pharmaceutical...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 38876 Document Date: January 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Banerjee,Abhijit,Brun,Jean-Francois,Carrere,Celine,Gibson,John David,Guillaumont,Patrick,Jack,William G.,Lanjouw,Jean O.,Milanovic,Branko L.,Piketty, Thomas,Wodon,Quentin T.,Rozelle,Scott Douglas,Jayasuriya,Ruwan,De Melo,Jaime A. P.

  • Has distance died? : evidence from a panel gravity model (English)

    The estimated coefficient of distance on the volume of trade is generally found to increase rather than decrease through time using the traditional gravity model of trade. This distance puzzle proved robust...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 77483 Document Date: January 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Brun,Jean-Francois,Carrere,Celine,Guillaumont,Patrick,De Melo,Jaime A. P.

  • On the geography of trade: distance is alive and well (English)

    With the decline in trade costs, the importance of distance has declined over time. If so, this would be a boon for countries located far from the main centers of economic activity. The authors examine...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 28154 Document Date: February 3, 2004 Disclosure Status: Author: Carrere,Celine,Schiff,Maurice