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The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide : A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration
Chinn, Menzie D. - 2004
To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a panel of 161 countries over the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include economic variables (income per capita, years of schooling, illiteracy, trade openness),...
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Sustainability in a Risky World
Campbell, John Y.; Martin, Ian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We view sustainability as a requirement that welfare should not be expected to decline over time. We impose this …
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Population, Productivity, and Sustainable Consumption
Pindyck, Robert S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
maximizes welfare. This raises a question: Given its cost, should sustainability be a social objective? …
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Undisclosed Debt Sustainability
Alfaro, Laura - 2019
sustainability. Disclosure of nontraditional debt would imply significant welfare gains for the recipient countries but would reduce … its sustainability. We discuss the implications of nontraditional lending on standard assumptions of sovereign debt models …
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An Analysis of Puerto Rico's Debt Relief Needs to Restore Debt Sustainability
Gluzmann, Pablo A. - 2018
was certified in March 2017 for fiscal years 2017-18 to 2026-27. Second, we perform a Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA … that the island's current debt position is unsustainable, and compute the necessary debt relief to restore sustainability …
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Fiscal Rules in India : Are They Effective?
Buiter, Willem H. - 2010
This paper, a chapter in the forthcoming Oxford University Press Handbook of the Indian Economy, edited by Chetan Ghate, considers India's experience with fiscal (responsibility) rules during the past decade. After reviewing the basic facts concerning public debt and deficits in India, the...
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Inflation Implications of Rising Government Debt
Giannitsarou, Chryssi - 2006
examine the channels through which governments achieve fiscal sustainability. We evaluate the ability of this framework to …
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A New Index of Debt Sustainability
Blanchard, Olivier J. - 2017
Debt sustainability is fundamentally a probabilistic concept: Debt is rarely sustainable with probability one. We … propose an index of external debt sustainability that reflects this uncertainty. Namely we construct the index as the … strong measures are potentially needed to reestablish sustainability. Exchange rates that appear overvalued in the baseline …
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Fiscal Stimulus and Fiscal Sustainability
Auerbach, Alan J. - 2017
sustainability along the metrics we study. Even in countries with high public debt, the penalty for activist discretionary fiscal …
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Sustaining Impacts When Transfers End : Women Leaders, Aspirations, and Investment in Children
Macours, Karen - 2016
Numerous evaluations show that conditional cash transfer programs change households' investments in their young children, but there are many open questions about how such changes can be sustained after transfers end. This paper analyzes the role of social interactions with local female leaders...
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