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New Estimates of Government Net Capital Stocks for 22 OECD Countries 1960-2001

Kamps, Christophe - EconWPA - 2005

The issue of whether government capital is productive has received a great deal of recent attention. Yet empirical analyses of public capital productivity have generally been limited to the official capital stock estimates available in a small sample of countries. Alternatively, many researchers...

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Tax Policy and Human Capital Formation with Public Investment in Education

Valente, Simone - EconWPA - 2005

This paper studies the effects of distortionary taxes and public investment in an endogenous growth OLG model with knowledge transmission. Fiscal policy affects growth in two respects: First, work time reacts to variations of prospective tax rates and modifies knowledge formation; second, public...

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The effect of inequality on growth: Theory and evidence from the Indian states

Ghosh, Sugata; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2003

This paper examines the effect of inequality on growth among the sub- national states in India. Theoretically, growth of the regional economy is driven by productive public investment in the provision of health and education services financed by a linear output tax, and the optimum tax rate is...

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Financial Crises and the Presence of Foreign Banks

Tschoegl, Adrian E. - EconWPA - 2004

The paper distinguishes between the classic or traditional foreign banks with their emphasis on corporate and wholesale banking, and the innovators responding to transition, deregulation or crisis in emerging markets. The innovators come in three varieties—bettors, prospectors and...

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The Dynamics of Returns to Education in Kenyan and Tanzanian Manufacturing

Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis; Wambugu, Anthony; … - EconWPA - 2004

this paper we use data from Kenya and Tanzania to estimate returns to education for manufacturing workers and examine how … convexity amongst the young. We also find evidence of increasing convexity over the 1990s in Tanzania, but remarkable stability …

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Household Semi-Public Goods and the Estimation of Consumer Equivalence Scales: Some First Steps

Bradbury, Bruce - EconWPA - 1995

Models of household consumption used to estimate the relative needs of people living in different family types need to … take account of economies of household size, price-like substitution effects and the allocation of consumption among the … individuals of the household. No existing estimation method tackles all three of these issues in a simultaneous and transparent …

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HIPC and Trade Policy Reform: Some Early Observations

Walkenhorst, Peter - EconWPA - 2004

The HIPC Initiative requires countries receiving debt relief to undertake a Poverty Reduction Strategy programme … reforms in the context of their Poverty Reduction Strategies have performed better overall during 1997-2001 than countries …

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Uganda: l'allievo modello della Banca Mondiale? Le nuove contraddizioni della cooperazione allo sviluppo

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2004

aiuto allo sviluppo, basati sull’elaborazione di piani nazionali per la riduzione della povertà (Poverty Reduction Strategy …

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Che cosa è il capitale sociale

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2004

Attraverso una rassegna critica della letteratura, questo articolo vuole fornire una prima introduzione al concetto di capitale sociale - con particolare riferimento alla sua rilevanza nello studio dei processi di sviluppo - e dare conto del dibattito in corso su questo tema da più di un...

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A Comprehensive Analysis of Economic Community in East Asia: Japan's Leadership in the Regional Development on both Economic and Financial Sides

Kitagawa, Masaomi - EconWPA - 2005

East Asian nations are currently undertaking the future development of an economic community by creating a viable framework for closer cooperation and deeper integration. However, the intractable problem is that there are a lot of diversities and heterogeneity that have prevented the East Asian...

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