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McCarthy, Desmond - 2000

Malaria ranks among the foremost health issues facing tropical countries. In this paper, we explore the determinants of cross-country differences in malaria morbidity, and examine the linkage between malaria and economic growth. Using a classification rule analysis, we confirm the dominant role...

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U.S. Robots and their Impacts in the Tropics : Evidence from Colombian Labor Markets

Kugler, Adriana D. - 2020

Previous studies for developed countries show negative short-run impacts of automation on employment and earnings. In this paper, we instead examine whether automation by a key trading partner can hurt workers in a developing country. We specifically focus in Colombia's labor market, and how the...

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Neckties in the Tropics : A Model of International Trade and Cultural Diversity

Rauch, James E. - 2005

Some cultural goods, like clothes and films, are consumed socially and are thus characterized by the same consumption network externalities as languages. At the same time, producers of new cultural goods in any one country draw on the stock of ideas generated by previous cultural production in...

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Tropical Underdevelopment

Sachs, Jeffrey D. - 2001

system (GIS) mapping, the paper presents evidence that production technology in the tropics has lagged behind temperate zone … technology in the two critical areas of agriculture and health, and this in turn opened a substantial income gap between climate … and weak agricultural technology in the tropics have combined to slow the demographic transition from high fertility and …

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The Economics of Tropical Deforestation

Balboni, Clare A.; Berman, Aaron; Burgess, Robin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

the economics of deforestation in the tropics. This combination of theory and empirics provides insights not only into the …

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Urban Forests : Environmental Health Values and Risks

Xing, Jianwei; Hu, Zhiren; Xia, Fan; Xu, Jintao; Zou, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Forests accompany the cities we build. There are an estimated 5.5 billion urban trees in the United States. Globally, about 25 percent of urban land is covered by tree canopy. This study examines urban forests as a policy tool for air pollution mitigation. We study an afforestation program in...

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Savings and the Terms of Trade Under Borrowing Constraints

Agenor, Pierre-Richard - 2000

This paper examines the extent to which permanent terms-of-trade shocks have an asymmetric effect on private savings. The first part uses a simple three-period model to show that, if households expect to face binding borrowing constraints in bad states of nature, savings rates will respond...

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Policy Evaluation in Uncertain Economic Environments

Brock, William A. - 2003

This paper develops a decision-theoretic approach to policy analysis. We argue that policy evaluation should be conducted on the basis of two factors: the policymaker's preferences, and the conditional distribution of the outcomes of interest given a policy and available information. From this...

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Exporting Raises Productivity in Sub-Saharan African Manufacturing Plants

Van Biesebroeck, Johannes - 2003

Proponents of trade liberalization argue that it will force firms to produce closer to the production possibility frontier and that the frontier will move out faster. In particular, plants that export will achieve a higher productivity level. However intuitive the argument, empirical evidence is...

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The Economic Tragedy of the XXth Century : Growth in Africa

Artadi, Elsa V. - 2003

The dismal growth performance of Africa is the worst economic tragedy of the XXth century. We document the evolution of per capita GDP for the continent as a whole and for subset of countries south of the Sahara desert. We document the worsening of various income inequality indexes and we...

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