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Financial Liberalisation, Bureaucratic Corruption and Economic

Blackburn, Keith; Forgues-Puccio, Gonzalo F. - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2006

We study the effect of international financial integration on economic development when the quality of governance may … follows: (1) corruption is always bad for economic development, but its effect is worse if the economy is open than if it is … closed; (2) the incidence of corruption may, itself, be affected by both the development and openness of the economy; (3 …

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Distribution and Development in a Model of Misgovernance

Blackburn, Keith; Forgues-Puccio, Gonzalo F. - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2005

This paper presents an analysis of bureaucratic corruption, income inequality and economic development. The analysis is … development. …

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Structural Transformation in Developed and Developing Countries

Bah, El-hadj - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2009

Differences in key features of the development process across rich and poor countries can provide clues to the sources … of economic development, nding that developed countries all followed the same process. In this paper, I compare …

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The Gender Inequalities Index (GII) as a New Way to Understand Gender Inequality Issues in Developing Countries

Ferrant, Gaëlle - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2010

The measurement of gender inequalities has become an important topic in the academic literature. First, appropriate indicators are needed to compare the relative situation of women in developing countries. Second, there is renewed attention given to the relationship between gender inequality and...

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“Stay with Us”? The Impact of Emigration on Wages in Honduras

Gagnon, Jason - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2010

While the econometric literature on the impact of immigration on labour markets is well developed, there is a striking gap in the migration literature concerning the impact of emigration on sending countries. This paper attempts to narrow that gap by investigating whether the large and intense...

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FDI, Regulations and Growth

Busse, Matthias; Cardosa, Groizard; Luis, José - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2006

The paper explores the linkage between income growth rates and foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. So far the evidence is rather mixed, as no robust relationship between FDI and income growth has been established. We argue that countries need a sound business environment in the form of good...

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Micro-credit, risk coping and the incidence of rural-to-urban migration

Ahsan, Quamrul - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2005

The focus of this paper is on the rural poor of south Asia and their struggle to cope with the seasonal risk of unemployment and the ensuing income risks. In the absence of formal credit or insurance markets the rural poor typically resort to, among other options, the following informal...

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The Political Economy of Corruption and and the Role of Financial Institutions

Hainz, Christa; Boerner, Kira - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2005

In transition and developing countries, we observe rather high levels of corruption even they have democratic political systems. This is surprising from a political economy perspective, as a majority of the people generally suffers from high corruption levels. Our model based on the fact that...

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Long-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs

Villieu, P.; Minea, Alexandru - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2007

In this paper, we study maximizing long-run economic growth trade-off in monetary and fiscal policies in an endogenous growth model with transaction costs. We show that both monetary and fiscal policies are subject to threshold effects, a result that gives account of a number of recent empirical...

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From Riches to Rags, and Back? Explaining the Growth Trajectory of Argentina since the 1890s

Campos, Nauro F.; Karanasos, Menelaos G.; Tan, Bin - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2009

underlying reasons have been identified (chiefly political instability, financial development, inflation, trade openness, and … growth and growth volatility. Our results suggest that financial development, trade openness and political instability are …

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