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Spatial externalities between Brazilian municipios and their neighbours

Vreyer, Philippe De; Spielvogel, Gilles - DIAL - 2005

convergence speed of per capita income among municipios and test whether spatial externalities are linked to local income growth …. Conditionally on structural characteristics, we find evidence of convergence between municipios and of positive spatial dependence …-ci. Nous estimons la vitesse de convergence du niveau de revenu par habitant des municipalités et testons la présence d …

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Dynamic fiscal impact of the debt relief initiatives on african heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs)

Cassimon, Danny; Ferry, Marin; Raffinot, Marc; … - DIAL - 2013

(english) 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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The Curse of the Elders? Aid Effectiveness and Gerontocracy in Developing Countries

Raffinot, Marc; Venet, Baptiste - DIAL - 2011

(english) In this paper we use a simple standard overlapping-generation model to assess the impact of foreign aid. Because of deference to the elders, donors are not able to modify the sharing out of aid between the old and the young in the recipient economy. The model shows that, if aid is...

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Les conséquences pour les pays en développement de la suppression des quotas dans le textile habillement : le cas de la Tunisie

Chaponniere, Jean-Raphael; Cling, Jean-Pierre; … - DIAL - 2004

(français) Les PED réalisent aujourd’hui la quasi-totalité des exportations mondiales d’habillement et la majorité des exportations textiles. Depuis 1974, les quotas instaurés pour les exportations des PED vers les pays industrialisés dans le cadre des AMF ont entraîné...

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Colonisation and Development in the Former French West Africa: The Long-term Impact of the Colonial Public Policy

Huillery, Elise - DIAL - 2006

(english) To what extent did the colonial public policy influence the current regional inequalities in the Frenchspeaking West Africa? This paper uses the differences in development outcomes across the areas of the former French West Africa to show the existence of colonial long term effects on...

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The Impact of European Settlement within French West Africa. Did pre-colonial prosperous areas fall behind?

Huillery, Elise - DIAL - 2008

(english) Did colonization change the distribution of prosperity within French-speaking West Africa? Using a new database on both pre-colonial and colonial contexts, this paper gives evidence that Europeans tended to settle in more prosperous pre-colonial areas and that the European settlement...

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Political Economy of growth and poverty in Burkina Faso: Power, Institutions and Rents

Koussoubé, Estelle; Loada, Augustin; Nebié, Gustave; … - DIAL - 2014

(english) This paper is an attempt to assess the relevance of the use of the North, Wallis and Weingast (2009) framework to explain the performances of Burkina Faso in terms of economic growth and development. The political history of Burkina Faso has been very unstable until president Campaoré...

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Economic growth and balance of payments constraint in Vietnam

Bagnai, Alberto; Rieber, Arsène; Tran, Thi Anh-Dao - DIAL - 2013

(english) Our paper examines the long run relationship between economic growth and the current account balance equilibrium by relying on the BoP constrained growth model. We find that Vietnam grew less than the rate predicted when the period 1985 to 2010 as a whole is considered, but with...

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Elections and Economic Policy in Developing Countries

Chauvet, Lisa; Collier, Paul - DIAL - 2008

This paper explores the impact of elections on economic policies and governance in developing countries. We distinguish between a structural effect, which increases accountability, and a cyclical effect which may be disruptive. Since the effects are offsetting, neither can be analyzed in...

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The Impact of International Trade Flows on the Growth of Brazilian States

Daumal, Marie; Ozyurt, Selin - DIAL - 2010

Brésil une convergence conditionnelle. Les Etats pauvres ont un taux de croissance plus élevé que les Etats riches mais il …

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