Showing 1 - 10 of 120
We examine the issue of technical assistance versus brain drain repatriation as alternative strategies for transferring scarce skills to a skill-poor economy. Technical assistance relies mainly on expatriate skills and labor from the host country, while brain drain repatriation seeks to effect a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400864
This paper formulates a simple aggregate growth model that is capable of assessing the impact of macroeconomic policies on the long-term performance of a developing country. The model emphasizes expenditures on human capital and the dynamics of external debt, and yields empirically testable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396208
This paper studies the impact of the level and volatility of the commodity terms of trade on economic growth, as well as on the three main growth channels: total factor productivity, physical capital accumulation, and human capital acquisition. We use the standard system GMM approach as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396933
This paper analyses the impact of government tax and subsidy policy on immigration of human capital and the effect of such immigration on growth and incomes. In the context of a two-country endogenous growth model with heterogeneous agents and human capital accumulation, we argue that human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395877
This paper argues that the development of human capital in the public sector should be an important ingredient in any proposed set of “second-generation” reforms for Africa. In the post-colonial era the quality of governance has seriously declined, and the stock of human capital in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401612
This assessment of the implementation of the BCP in India has been completed as part of the Financial Sector Assessment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644888
This Technical Note examines India's securities market and the regulatory system overseeing the securities market and … market participants. It is based upon a mission to Mumbai, India from March 14 - 31, 2017, conducted as one component of a … occurred in India's securities markets since the last assessment and the changes that have occurred in the regulation of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645094
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409811
Despite the external origin of the financial crisis, the potential impact on India’s corporate sector could be large …, as India has become increasingly integrated with the global economy in the past decade. The Selected Issues paper … discusses India’s economic development and policies. The impact on the corporate sector will in turn feed into India’s overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014405857
This 2006 Article IV Consultation highlights that India’s economy has continued to grow above trend, with an average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014405862