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    The differential effects of oil demand and supply shocks on the global economy

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    How do oil-price shocks affect real output, inflation, the real effective exchange rates, interest rates, and equity prices in different countries, including major oil exporters? The current paper investigates the macroeconomic effects of oil-supply and oil-demand shocks.
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    The limited promise of agricultural trade liberalization

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2009
    It has become an article of faith in international trade negotiations that farmers in developing countries have much to gain from agricultural trade liberalisation. This paper assesses the evidence for such claims. It concludes that the promise of agricultural trade liberalisation is overstated, while the costs to small-scale farmers in developing countries are often very high.
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    Who uses the patent system in developing countries? A study of patent propensities in Argentina,

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2009
    As it is well known, technological innovation is a key determinant of the firms’ performance. There is evidence of this relation not only for firms that operate in the developed countries (Kleinknecht y Mohnen, 2002), but also for the ones in the developing countries, including Argentina (Chudnovsky et al, 2006).
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    Policies for industrial learning in China and Mexico

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2009
    Previous work has shown that the results of both China and Mexico’s export-led market reforms over the past quarter century have been strikingly different. In contrast to China, Mexico has not managed to increase the value added of its exports of manufactured goods and has subsequently had a difficult time competing with China in world markets.
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    Does Islamic banking development favor macroeconomic efficiency?: evidence on the Islamic finance – growth nexus

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    Islamic finance can be defined as finance that conforms to Islamic law, and there was an impressive expansion of this finance in recent years. The aim of this paper is to investigate the macroeconomic impact of Islamic banking development by analysing the relation between this development and productivity estimated at the macroeconomic level.
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    Measurement matters: designing new metrics for a drug policy that works

    Igarape Institute, 2015
    Supporters of progressive drug policy are committed to using scientific evidence as the basis for informed public debate and policy-making. This is more radical proposal than it first appears. It requires a fundamental shift in how governments and societies think about monitoring and measuring production, trafficking and consumption.
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    BRICS and South-South cooperation in medicine: emerging trends in research and entrepreneurial collaborations

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2012
    Though there is huge spectrum of South-South collaboration, led by the economies from the BRICS countries in the medical field there is a lack of studies examining the extent and characteristics of these collaborations and evaluating their benefits.
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    Financial crisis of 2008 and shifting economic power: is there convergence

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2013
    There is a vigorous debate about shifting economic power in the world system. It is believed that the developed countries and in particular the US are losing their predominance in the world economy and the so-called emerging economies (EEs) are becoming more important.
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    Care in households and communities: background paper on conceptual issues

    Oxfam, 2013
    This paper clarifies the main conceptual issues around care as a major issue in promoting women’s human rights, empowerment and overcoming poverty and inequality. It outlines overlapping terms and debates relevant for local programming and research on ‘care in households and communities’.
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    Demands for media democratisation and the Latin American ‘New Left’: Government strategies in Argentina and Brazil in comparative perspective

    German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2014
    This paper examines the determinants of government strategies vis‐à‐vis dominant media actors in the Latin American context, where the media’s role in democratic politics is increasingly being questioned. It compares the first two Kirchnerist presidencies in Argentina with the first two Workers’ Party‐led governments in Brazil.

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