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Democratization, Elite Capture and Economic Development

Foster, Andrew D.; Rosenzweig, Mark Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We show using a theoretical framework that embeds a voting model in a general-equilibrium model of a rural economy with two interest groups defined by land ownership that the effects of democratization--a shift from control of public resources by the landed elite to a democratic regime with...

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Business Literacy and Development : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural Mexico

Calderon, Gabriela - 2013

A large share of the poor in developing countries run small enterprises, often earning low incomes. This paper explores whether the poor performance of businesses can be explained by a lack of basic business skills. We randomized the offer of a free, 48-hour business skills course to female...

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Does Agriculture Generate Local Economic Spillovers? Short-run and Long-run Evidence from the Ogallala Aquifer

Hornbeck, Richard - 2012

Agricultural development may support broader economic development, though agricultural expansion may also crowd-out local non-agricultural activity. On the United States Plains, areas over the Ogallala aquifer experienced windfall agricultural gains when post-WWII technologies increased farmers'...

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Decomposing the great trade collapse : products, prices, and quantities in the 2008-2009 crisis

Haddad, Mona - 2011

, Indonesia, and the United States. When we aggregate across all products, most of the countries analyzed experienced a decline in …

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The Distributional Impacts of Indonesia's Financial Crisis on Household Welfare : A "Rapid Response" Methodology

Friedman, Jed - 2001

Analyzing the distributional impacts of economic crises is important and, unfortunately, an ever more pressing need. If policymakers are to intervene to help those most adversely impacted, then policymakers need to identify those who have been most harmed and the magnitude of that harm....

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Recovery and Sustainability in East Asia

Park, Yung Chul - 2001

This paper analyzes the macroeconomic adjustment from the crisis in East Asia in a broad international prospective. The stylized pattern from the previous 160 currency crisis episodes over the period from 1970 to 1995 shows a V-type adjustment of real GDP growth in the years prior to and...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Wages in Indonesian Manufacturing

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2001

This paper asks two types of questions. One is about the behavior of foreign-owned firms in Indonesian labor markets and the other is about the effect of the presence of foreign-owned firms on Indonesian wages. We ask first whether foreign-owned plants pay a higher price for labor, that is, more...

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Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia : Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment

Duflo, Esther - 2000

is one of the largest school construction programs on record. I evaluate the effect of this program on education and … education and earnings. Children ages 2 to 6 in 1974 received 0.12 to 0.19 more years of education for each school constructed … variables for the impact of education on wages generates estimates of economic returns to education ranging from 6.8 percent to …

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Impacts of the Indonesian Economic Crisis : Price Changes and the Poor

Levinsohn, James - 1999

The recent financial crisis in Indonesia has resulted in dramatic price increases. Using very recent data, we …

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Ownership versus Environment : Why are Public Sector Firms Inefficient?

Bartel, Ann P. - 1999

firms in Indonesia. We consider two leading hypotheses: (1) public sector enterprises are inefficient due to monitoring …

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