Developing Countries In The World Economy
Published on 14. April 2015
Book
Hardback
632 pages
978-981-4494-89-2 (ISBN)
Description
Differences in the choices of trade and macro policies, both by developing countries and by developed countries towards developing countries, have been critical in determining the overall performance of developing countries. All too often, the performance of developing countries has not been assessed using appropriately conducted studies. The papers in this book are chosen to bridge this gap and show how a quantitative approach to policy evaluation can help resolve controversies and explain the choice of observed policies.The book brings together carefully selected papers that assess the impacts of various trade and macro policies, by quantifying the policies of developing countries at the macro level (exchange rate, investment, savings) and at the sector level (trade and industrial policies), in addition to policies of developed countries towards developing countries (trade preferences, quotas, VERs and migration policies). Facets of the political economy of trade, migration, and climate policies are explored (such as the enlargement of the EU, the rise of regionalism and how it can ease the pains of adjustment to trade liberalization, openness and inequality). Growing tensions between trade and the environment are also investigated. In short, this book covers a wide area of events ranging from external and internal shocks to external and internal policies, showing how the consequences of these events can be brought to rigorous quantitative analysis.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
1055 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-4494-89-2 (9789814494892)
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Content
Adjustment and the Real Exchange Rate: Adjustment with a Fixed Exchange Rate: Adjustment in Cameroon Cote d'Ivoire and Senegal (S Devarajan and J de Melo); Adjustment, Investment, and the Real Exchange Rate in Developing Countries (J de Melo and R Faini); The Effects of Financial Liberalization on Savings and Investment in Uruguay (J de Melo and J Tybout); What Went Wrong with the Recent Reforms in the Southern Cone (V Corbo, J de Melo and J Tybout); Fiscal Policy Space and Economic Performance: Some Stylized Facts (C Carrere and J de Melo); Trade Barriers and Market Structure: The Influence of Increased Foreign Competition on Industrial Concentration and Profitability (J de Melo and S Urata); The Effects of Trade Reforms on Scale and Technical Efficiency: New Evidence from Chile (J de Melo and J Tybout); Price, Quality and Welfare Effects of European VERs on Japanese Autos (J de Melo and P Messerlin); Do Exporters Gain from VERs? (J de Melo and A Winters); Pricing Under Double Market Power: The Case of the International Vanilla Market (J de Melo, M Olarreaga and W Takacs); Has Distance Died? Evidence from a Panel Gravity Model (JF Brun, C Carrere, P Guillaumont and J de Melo); Are Different Rules of Origin Equally Costly? Estimates from NAFTA (C Carrere and J de Melo); Political Economy and Migration: Attitudes Towards Immigration: A Trade Theoretic Approach (S Bilal, JM Grether and J de Melo); The Political Economy of International Migration in a Ricardo-Viner Model (JM Grether, J de Melo and T Muller); The Political Economy of EU Enlargement: Lessons from Switzerland (J de Melo, F Miguet and T Muller); FDI, the Brain Drain and Trade: Channels and Evidence (A Ivlevs and J de Melo); Can Bilateralism Ease the Pains of Trade Liberalisation? (O Cadot, J de Melo and M Olarreaga); Political Economy Aspects of Climate Change Mitigation Efforts (N Mathys and J de Melo); External Policies: The New Regionalism: A Country Perspective (J de Melo, A Panagariya and D Rodrik); Global Manufacturing SO2 Emissions: Does Trade Matter? (JM Grether, N Mathys and J de Melo); Unravelling the Worldwide Pollution Haven Effect (JM Grether, N Mathys and J de Melo); Openness, Inequality and Poverty: Endowments Matter (J Gourdon, N Maystre and J de Melo); Growth-Oriented Adjustment Programs: A Statistical Analysis (R Faini, J de Melo, A Senhadji-Semlali and J Stanton); Why OECD Countries Should Reform their Rules of Origin (O Cadot and J de Melo).