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After two debt relief initiatives launched in 1996 (the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, HIPC Initiative) and in 1999 (The enhanced HIPC initiative), the G7 decided to go further by cancelling the remaining multilateral debt for these HIPC countries through the Multilateral Debt Relief...
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After two debt relief initiatives launched in 1996 (the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, HIPC Initiative) and in 1999 (The enhanced HIPC initiative), the G7 decided to go further by cancelling (most of) the remaining multilateral debt for these HIPC countries through the Multilateral Debt Relief...
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This Paper compares the observed distribution of the stock of infrastructures across the Spanish regions with the optimal allocation derived from a planning problem in which the observed degree of ex-post redistribution is taken as given. The results suggest that Spanish public investment policy...
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Recent estimates of convergence equations using panel data techniques tend to produce theoretically unpalatable results … Spanish regions, it is found that explicitly allowing for short-term noise reduces the estimated convergence rate to values …
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This paper surveys the recent literature on convergence across countries and regions. We discuss the main convergence … exploring the role of alternative convergence mechanisms and the possible shortcomings of panel data techniques for convergence …
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Recent empirical studies tend to confirm the importance of investment in human and technological capital as determinants of growth. Extensions of the neoclassical model that incorporate these factors explain rather well the long-run growth experience of a large sample of countries, and are...
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This paper analyses the sources of post-war growth and convergence in the OECD using an extension of Mankiw, Romer and …. Technological catch-up is found to be very fast and seems to have played an important role in OECD convergence during the first half … of the sample period. The exhaustion of this effect, moreover, may help explain the slowdown of growth and convergence …
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This paper illustrates how convergence equations can be used to analyse the dynamics of the income distribution, thus … allowing for the main convergence mechanisms identified in the literature. The estimated model and the underlying data are then … used in a convergence accounting exercise, which yields quantitative estimates of the contribution of each of these …
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Global Budget Support should contribute to give some sense to the national process of budget allocation. The case of Burkina Faso shows that progress has been made in this direction. Nevertheless, the links between strategies and budgetisation remain weak, namely because of budget dualism. The...
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