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  • The World Bank economic review 28 (1) (English)

    This paper is organized in following headings: how can safety nets contribute to economic growth?; political reforms and public policy: evidence from agricultural and food policies; food security and storage...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 113048 Document Date: January 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Alderman,Harold H.,Yemtsov,Ruslan G.,Olper,Alessandro,Falkowski,Jan,Swinnen,Johan F. M.,Larson,Donald F.,Lampietti,Julian A.,Gouel,Christophe,Cafiero,Carlo,Roberts,John,De Melo,Jaime A. P.,Portugal-Perez,Alberto,Fafchamps,Marcel,Soderbom,Mans Martin,Gibson,Jhon,Mckenzie,David J.,Zia,Bilal Husnain,Borchert,Ingo,Gootiiz,Batshur,Mattoo,Aaditya

  • Evaluating aid for trade : a survey of recent studies (English)

    The demand for accountability in aid-for-trade is increasing but monitoring has focused on case studies and impressionistic narratives. The paper reviews recent evidence from a wide range of studies, recognizing...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6742 Document Date: January 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cadot,Olivier,Fernandes,Ana Margarida,Gourdon,Julien,Mattoo,Aaditya,De Melo,Jaime A. P.

  • 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

  • The World Bank economic review 23 (2) (English)

    This issue includes the following: dollar a day revisited, by Martin Ravallion, Shaohua Chen, and Prem Sangraula; evidence on changes in aid allocation criteria, by Stijn Claessens, Danny Cassimon, and...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 62985 Document Date: January 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cassimon,Danny Pierre,Chen,Shaohua,Claessens, Stijn,Clemens, John,Fafchamps,Marcel,Javorcik,Beata,Jeuland,Marc,Kandilov,Ivan,Lucas, Marcelino,De Melo,Jaime A. P.,Owens,Trudy,Ravallion,Martin,Sangraula,Prem Prasad,Spatareanu,Mariana,Van Campenhout,Bjorn Fh,Whittington,Dale,De Walque,Damien B. C. M.

  • The World Bank economic review 22 (2) (English)

    This issue includes the following: trade liberalization and growth: new evidence, by Romain Wacziarg and Karen Horn Welch; comprehensive wealth and future consumption: accounting for population growth...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 53728 Document Date: January 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Barham,Bradford L.,Bhargava,Alok,Cull,Robert J.,De Melo,Jaime A. P.,Docquier, Frédéric,Dreher,Axel,Effron,Laurie,Ferreira,Susana,Girma, Sourafel,Gitter,Seth Richard,Gong, Yundan,Görg, Holger,Hamilton,Kirk E.,Nunnenkamp, Peter,O'Ryan, Raúl,Sánchez, José Miguel,Thiele, Rainer,Vincent,Jeffrey R.,Wacziarg,Romain,Welch, Karen Horn

  • 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.

  • Why OECD countries should reform rules of origin (English)

    With preferential trade agreements on the rise worldwide rules of origin which are necessary to prevent trade deflection are attracting increasing attention. At the same time, preference erosion for Generalized...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 76779 Document Date: October 4, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cadot,Olivier,De Melo,Jaime A. P.

  • The World Bank economic review 21 (2) (English)

    This issue includes the following: migration, remittances, and the brain drain: a symposium in memory of Riccardo Faini - an introduction; by Jaime de Melo. Remittances and the brain drain: do more skilled...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 47685 Document Date: January 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Melo,Jaime A. P.,Faini,Riccardo,Docquier,Frederic, Lohest, Olivier,Marfouk,Abdeslam,Yang,Dean, Choi, HwaJung, Reine, Michel,Rapoport,Hillel,Roodman,David Malin,Zhang,Xiaobo,Tan,Kong-Yam, Emerson, Patrick M., Portela Souza, Andre,Stifel,David C.,Christiaensen,Luc

  • Unraveling the worldwide pollution haven effect (English)

    This paper contributes to the debate on the existence of pollution haven effects by systematically measuring the pollution content of trade (measured by the pollution content of imports, PCI) and decomposing...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4047 Document Date: November 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Grether,Jean-Marie,Mathys,Nicole Andrea,De Melo,Jaime A. P.

  • The elimination of Madagascar's Vanilla Marketing Board, ten years on (English)

    This paper explores how the elimination of Madagascar's Marketing Board in 1995 affected prices paid to farmers, incentives, and regional indicators of poverty and inequality. After steadily losing market...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3979 Document Date: August 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cadot,Olivier,Dutoit,Laure,De Melo,Jaime A. P.

  • Openness, inequality, and poverty : endowments matter (English)

    Using tariffs as a measure of openness, the authors find consistent evidence that the conditional effects of trade liberalization on inequality are correlated with relative factor endowments. Trade liberalization...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3981 Document Date: August 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Gourdon,Julien,Maystre, Nicolas,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.