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The (Declining) Role of Households in Sustaining China's Economy: Structural Path Analysis for 1997-2007
Yang, Ling; Thurlow, James; Lahr, Michael L. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
Current explanations for private consumption.s diminished role in China focus on the expansion of exports and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010584070
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China?s Global Growth and Latin American Exports
Jenkins, Rhys - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008
China?s global expansion has led to concerns amongst other developing country exporters that they will be displaced by … which countries face from China, which is then applied to empirical data on US imports from China and 18 Latin American … countries. It also presents new estimates of the impact of China on the value of Latin American exports to the US over the past …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005001367
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International Mobility of Engineers and the Rise of Entrepreneurship in the Periphery
Saxenian, AnnaLee - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059879
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Agriculture and Trade Opportunities for Tanzania: Past Volatility and Future Climate Change
Ahmed, Syud Amer; Hertel, Thomas W.; Martin, William J. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
Given global heterogeneity in climate-induced agricultural variability, Tanzania has the potential to substantially increase its maize exports to other countries. If global maize production is lower than usual due to supply shocks in major exporting regions, Tanzania may be able to export more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653096
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Aid Allocation and Fragile States
McGillivray, Mark - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006
This paper summarises research on aid allocation and effectiveness, highlighting the current findings of recent research on aid allocation to fragile states. Fragile states are defined by the donor community as those with either critically poor policies or poorly performing institutions, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031685
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How Volatile and Unpredictable are Aid Flows, and What are the Policy Implications?
Bulir, Ales; Hamann, A. Javier - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031761
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Trade Openness and Vulnerability in Central and Eastern Europe
Montalbano, Pierluigi; Federici, Alessandro; Triulzi, … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059998
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Emerging Evidence on the Relative Importance of Sectoral Sources of Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ogunleye, Eric Kehinde - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
Purposeful, well-targeted and successful transformation policies will be elusive for a country or region that does not understand the relative importance of its sectoral sources of growth. This study aims at eliciting our understanding in this respect by providing an assessment of the relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366415
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Institutional Reforms, Private Sector, and Economic Growth in Africa
Okey, Mawussé K. N. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
The aim of this paper is to analyse the effect of institutional reforms on the revival of African economies. We study the impact of positive changes in business environment indicators of the Doing Business project and the Economic Freedom Index of the Heritage Foundation on the private sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009275345
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The impact of democracy on economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa, 1982-2012
Masaki, Takaaki; van de Walle, Nicolas - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
Does democracy promote economic growth? There is still an ongoing debate over the economic implications of democracy, and this question has gained critical importance particularly in the African context, where a wave of democratization in the early 1990s
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010766013