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The Exchange Rate as an Industrial Policy

Ottonello, Pablo; Perez, Diego J.; Witheridge, William - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study the role of exchange rates in industrial policy. We construct an open-economy macroeconomic framework with production externalities and show that the desirability of these policies critically depends on the dynamic patterns of externalities. When they are stronger in earlier stages of...

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Is the Global Economy Deglobalizing? And if so, why? And what is next?

Goldberg, Pinelopi K.; Reed, Tristan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Data on global trade as well as capital and labor flows indicate a slowdown, but not reversal, of globalization post the 2008-09 financial crisis. Yet profound changes in the policy environment and public sentiment in the largest economies over the past five years suggest the beginning of a new...

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Return on Returns : Building Scientific Capacity in AIDS Endemic Countries

Fry, Caroline; Ganguli, Ina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We estimate spillovers from public funding for health research in the context of the NIH's Fogarty International Center's AIDS International Training and Research Program, which aims to strengthen scientific capacity in AIDS endemic countries by providing African researchers with training...

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Zimbabwe : Challenges and Policy Options after Hyperinflation

International Monetary Fund - 2010

This paper examines the challenges and policy options after hyperinflation in Zimbabwe. The paper reviews the pros and … cons of alternative monetary regimes for Zimbabwe to succeed the current multicurrency system, which the authorities …. The paper also assesses competitiveness and external sustainability in debt-distressed Zimbabwe. It also makes a case for …

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Are Poor Individuals Mainly Found in Poor Households? Evidence using Nutrition Data for Africa

Brown, Caitlin S. - 2017

Antipoverty policies assume that targeting poor households suffices in reaching poor individuals. We question this assumption. Our comprehensive assessment for sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely across the household wealth and consumption...

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Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa

Heldring, Leander - 2012

In this paper we evaluate the impact of colonialism on development in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the world context, colonialism had very heterogeneous effects, operating through many mechanisms, sometimes encouraging development sometimes retarding it. In the African case, however, this...

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How Is Power Shared In Africa?

Francois, Patrick - 2012

This paper presents new evidence on the power sharing layout of national political elites in a panel of African countries, most of them autocracies. We present a model of coalition formation across ethnic groups and structurally estimate it employing data on the ethnicity of cabinet ministers...

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Kinship Structure and the Family : Evidence from the Matrilineal Belt

Lowes, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Kinship structure - how extended families are organized - varies across societies and may have implications for outcomes within the household. A key source of variation in kinship structure is whether lineage and inheritance are traced through women, as in matrilineal kinship systems, or men, as...

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Regional Economic Outlook, October 2014: Sub Saharan Africa : Staying the Course

International Monetary Fund - 2014

Growth in much of Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to remain strong, driven by efforts to invest in infrastructure and strong agricultural production. The current Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone is exacting a heavy toll, with spillovers to neighboring countries. External...

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