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A global perspective on effectiveness of aid for trade
Berrittella, Maria; Zhang, Jian - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012
Recent global initiatives on debt relief and development assistance call for increasing aid for trade to the poorest countries. The paper applies a multi-country computable general equilibrium model to measure the effectiveness of alternative aid for trade categories. The findings show that aid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010829481
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Economic growth in Ghana : determinants and prospect
Raggl, Anna K. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
This paper employs a simple cross-country panel framework to assess the determinants of growth in Ghana's gross domestic product over the past four decades. A set of standard covariates is used to explain growth rates. Natural resource variables are included because the effects of natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010829662
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Trade reform and household welfare : the case of Mexico
Ianchovichina, Elena; Nicita, Alessandro; Soloaga, Isidro - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2001
The authors use a two-step, computationally simple procedure to analyze the effects of Mexico's potentially unilateral tariff liberalization. First, they use a computable general equilibrium model provided by the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) as the new price generator. Second, they apply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128488
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Income convergence during the disintegration of the world economy, 1919-39
Milanovic, Branko - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003
Some economists have argued that the process of disintegration of the world economy between the two world wars led to income divergence between the countries. This is in keeping with the view that economic integration leads to income convergence. The paper shows that the view that the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128502
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The slippery slope : explaining the increase in extreme poverty in urban Brazil, 1976-96
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Paes de Barrios, Ricardo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999
for measured inequality overall, and negligible for the incidence of poverty (relative to"high"poverty lines). But the net …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128504
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Traffic fatalities and economic growth
Kopits, Elizabeth; Cropper, Maureen - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003
The authors examine the impact of income growth on the death rate due to traffic fatalities, as well as on fatalities per motor vehicle and on the motorization rate (vehicles/population) using panel data from 1963-99 for 88 countries. Specifically, they estimate fixed effects models for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128507
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Assessing the distributional impact of public policy
Essama-Nssah, B. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2002
public policy by using a wide variety of evaluation functions, inequality indicators (like the extended Gini coefficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128535
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Comparative life expectancy in Africa
McCarthy, F. Desmond; Wolf, Holger - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2001
For health outcomes, is poverty destiny? The authors explore this question for life expectancy in Africa, where health outcomes are positively correlated with income, but where the link is far from uniform. The key variables associated with good health outcomes (controlling for health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128543
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Economic transition and the distributions of income and wealth
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1997
suggests that even an efficient privatization designed to be egalitarian may lead to increases in inequality (and possibly … the public sector may also contribute to an increase in inequality. So can labor market reforms that lead to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128575
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Dynamics of income inequality and welfare in Latvia in the late 1990s
Fofack, Hippolyte; Monga, Celestin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004
This paper analyzes the dynamics of poverty and income inequality during the recovery phase of the transition that … characterized the Republic of Latvia in the late 1990s. Despite a continued rise in income inequality, empirical evidence suggests … urban areas. In a context of rising income inequality and widening urban-rural income and poverty gaps, the benefits of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128587