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Guyana has been able to reverse decades of economic decline and stagnation with five consecutive years of robust growth … during the period 2006-2010. The study probes whether Guyana has finally turned the corner. The study finds that good …
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This paper examines the monetary policy framework of Guyana. Guyana’s monetary Policy is motivated by the IMF …
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This paper examines why commercial banks in Guyana demand non-remunerated excess reserves, a phenomenon that became …
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The principal contribution of this article is that it provides evidence of recent trends of inequality in Guyana, but … is on the rise. The article argues that the mining and quarrying sector regulates Guyana’s growth performance and ignites …
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This paper examines Guyana’s growth record 1992 to 2010, against one aspect of the World Bank’s Functional Model of … Selective Interventions in Guyana’s growth record since 1992. The paper will discuss how selective interventions were the … 1990’s), and then use that basis to discuss Guyana. According to current development thought, selective policy …
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During the last three decades, developing countries have made enormous strides in opening up their protected domestic markets to international trade and foreign investment. Yet most countries have not simply opened up their markets. They have also instituted a range of policies to encourage...
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A conventional reading of economic history implies that free market reforms rescued the world’s economies from stagnancy during the 1970s and 1980s. I reexamine a well-established econometric literature linking economic freedom to growth, and argue that their positive findings hinge on two...
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Many developing countris now actively solicit foreign investment, offering income tax holidays, import duty exemptions, and subsidies to foreign firms. One reason for subsidizing these firms is the positive externalities as foreign technology is transferred from foreign to domestic firms. This...
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This chapter reviews the available evidence on the linkages between trade reform, labor markets, and FDI. We begin by drawing on studies of sixteen countries that underwent trade reforms in the 1980s and 1990s. These sixteen countries were chosen because of their inclusion in the United Nations...
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This paper uses Indonesian data to analyze the impact of foreign ownership on wages. After controlling for worker and firm characteristics, we find that foreign firms pay a wage premium, which is larger for skilled relative to unskilled workers.
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