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Uganda: l'allievo modello della Banca Mondiale? Le nuove contraddizioni della cooperazione allo sviluppo
Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2004
contraddizioni che caratterizzano le politiche perseguite dalle istituzioni finanziarie internazionali. Fino a poco tempo fa, l’Uganda … sociale dell’Uganda, che sta rapidamente perdendo la fiducia dei donatori e delle istituzioni finanziarie internazionali. L … seconda parte approfondisce il caso specifico dell’Uganda, attraverso un’analisi del contesto sociale e istituzionale del …
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Uganda: l'allievo modello della Banca Mondiale? Le nuove contraddizioni della cooperazione allo sviluppo
Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2004
contraddizioni che caratterizzano le politiche perseguite dalle istituzioni finanziarie internazionali. Fino a poco tempo fa, l’Uganda … sociale dell’Uganda, che sta rapidamente perdendo la fiducia dei donatori e delle istituzioni finanziarie internazionali. L … seconda parte approfondisce il caso specifico dell’Uganda, attraverso un’analisi del contesto sociale e istituzionale del …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118732
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Mortality Rate and Property Rights in a Model with Human Capital and R&D
Sequeira, Tiago - EconWPA - 2004
We use a set of established growth models, which simultaneously include human capital and R&D, to show that the effect of mortality rate in human capital accumulation is quantitatively more important than the effect of perfectly guaranteed patents on research. First, we show that the effect of...
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Early Starts, Reversals and Catchup in The Process of Economic Development
Chanda, Areendam; Putterman, Louis - EconWPA - 2004
Early states like China, India, Italy and Greece have been experiencing more rapid economic growth in recent decades than have later-comers to agriculture and statehood like New Guinea, the Congo, and Uruguay. We show that more rapid growth by early starters has been the norm in economic...
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The Firms Speak: What the World Business Environment Survey Tells Us about Constraints on Private Sector Development
Batra, Geeta; Kaufmann, Daniel; Stone, Andrew H. W. - EconWPA - 2004
This paper, a synthesis of salient findings of the authors’ book entitled “Investment Climate Around the World: Voices of the Firms from the World Business Environment Survey”, and based on a chapter in “Pathways Out of Poverty: Private Firms and Economic Mobility in Developing...
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IS INFLATION ALWAYS AND EVERYWHERE A NON-MONETARY PHENOMENON: EVIDENCE FROM UGANDA
David, KIHANGIRE Asiimwe; Albert, MUGYENYI - EconWPA - 2005
This paper examines the determinants of Uganda’s inflation rate during 1994M7-2005M6. We test the central hypothesis … that Uganda’s inflation rate is always and everywhere a non-monetary phenomenon. A theoretical background relating … results suggest insufficient evidence to accept the research hypothesis, as Uganda’s inflation rate is significantly …
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HAS EXCHANGE RATE VARIABILITY AFFECTED TROPICAL NON-TRADITIONAL
Kihangire, David; Potts, David; Cameron, Prof. Sam - EconWPA - 2005
This study examines the effects of exchange rate variability on Uganda’s flowers exports during 1994-2001 by testing … the central hypothesis that following the floating exchange rate regime, ‘Uganda’s exports of tropical flowers are … suggest that although Uganda’s flower exports are negatively correlated with exchange rate variability, the measured effects …
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EXCHANGE RATE MISALIGNMENT AND FINANCIAL LIBERALISATION: Exchange Rate Misalignment and Financial Liberalisation: Empirical Evidence and Macroeconomic Implications for Uganda, 1993...
Kihangire, David; Abuka, Charles - EconWPA - 2005
This study empirically investigates Uganda’s equilibrium real exchange rate (EREER) during 1993M1 to 2004M12. Using … ARDL approach to cointegration, we find that a long-run relationship exists between Uganda’s REER and its determinants …-run EREER model. Comparing the actual REER and the EREER reveals that Uganda’s REER is overvalued over the recent period, 2003 …
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Intrinsic Competition and the Labor-Schooling Trade-off in Uganda Competition in Child Labor and Schooling Decision Making in Uganda. Evidence from a Bivariate Probit Model
Ganglmair, Bernhard - EconWPA - 2005
empirical study, quite recent and hardly discussed data from Uganda is used for the joint estimation of child labor and school …
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THE EFFECTS OF EXCHANGE RATE VARIABILITY ON EXPORTS: EVIDENCE FROM UGANDA (1988 – 2001)
Kihangire, David - EconWPA - 2005
Using monthly data, this study investigates the effects of exchange rate variability on Uganda’s aggregate export …-1993). The main research question it posits is: “What is the effect of exchange rate variability on Uganda’s exports?” Premised … on risk-aversion, the study tests the main hypothesis that ‘Uganda’s exports are negatively and significantly correlated …
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