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Andrews, Dan; Jencks, Christopher; Leigh, Andrew - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009

Pooling data for 1905 to 2000, we find no systematic relationship between top income shares and economic growth in a panel of 12 developed nations observed for between 22 and 85 years. After 1960, however, a one percentage point rise in the top decile’s income share is associated with a...

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Does the Size and Quality of the Government Explain the Size and Efficiency of the Financial Sector?

Cooray, Arusha - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010

This study examines the impact of two dimensions of the government, namely, size and quality, on two dimensions of the financial sector, size and efficiency, in a cross section of 71 economies. The study finds that while increased quality of the government as measured by governance and legal...

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Does Democracy Explain Gender Differentials in Education?

Cooray, Arusha - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009

This study shows that despite a strong empirical association between gender differentials in enrolment ratios and democracy, that democracy alone does not explain gender differentials in education in Africa and Asia. The results indicate that income, employment in agriculture, religious...

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Unbundled Institutions, Human Capital and Growth

Bhattacharyya, Sambit - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008

We investigate the partial effects of institutions and human capital on growth. We find that cross-country regressions of the log-level of per capita GDP on instrumented measures of institutions and schooling are uninformative about the relative importance of institutions and human capital in...

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Root Causes of African Underdevelopment

Bhattacharyya, Sambit - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008

What are the root causes of Africa's current state of under-development? Is it the long history of slave trade, or the …

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A generic approach to investment modelling in recursive dynamic CGE models

Wickramasekara, Piyasiri - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2015

There has been increased emphasis on the linkages between international migration and development at international … for mainstreaming migration in development with some origin countries making specific attempts at incorporating migration … concerns into their development agendas. Yet this approach is being promoted in a context where there is still inadequate …

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Paradise Lost: The Cost of Removing Tax and Trade Provisions from the Compact of Free Association

Brazys, Samuel Rueckert - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

Upon implementing the Compact of Free Association between the United States and the Federated States of Micronesia, the US Congress unilaterally stripped tax and trade provisions that would have encouraged investment in the Federated States of Micronesia. I quantify what was lost to the...

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Paradise Lost: The Cost of Removing Tax and Trade Provisions from the Compact of Free Association

Brazys, Samuel Rueckert - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

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Paradise Lost: The Cost of Removing Tax and Trade Provisions from the Compact of Free Association

Brazys, Samuel Rueckert - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

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From Intervention to Partnership—Prospects for Development Partnership in Solomon Islands after the RAMSI

Barbara, Julien - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National …

This article considers prospects for effective development partnership in Solomon Islands following the transition of … development assistance from the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) to bilateral donors in 2013. It focuses on … development problems in Solomon Islands, will be important to the effectiveness of future support. …

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