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Hazan, Moshe; Zoabi, Hosny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

accumulation of human capital during the transition from stagnation to growth. This is because greater longevity raises children …’s future income proportionally at all levels of education, leaving the relative return between quality and quantity unaffected …. This result is consistent with historical evidence that longevity began to increase long before education did. Our theory …

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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions

Alessie, Rob; Portela, Miguel; Teulings, Coen N - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …

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Conditionality and Ownership in IMF Lending: A Political Economy Approach

Drazen, Allan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

The relation between IMF conditionality and country ownership of assistance programs is considered from a political economy perspective, focusing on the question of why conditionality is needed if it is in a country’s best interests to undertake the reform program. It is argued that...

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Why is there Multilateral Lending?

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

Why should multilateral lending exist in a world where private capital markets are well developed and governments have their own bilateral aid programmes? If lending by the World Bank, IMF, and regional development banks has an independent rationale, it must rest on advantages generated by the...

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Will HIPC Matter? The Debt Game and Donor Behaviour in Africa

Birdsall, Nancy; Claessens, Stijn; Diwan, Ishac - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

In this Paper we focus on the question: Will the HIPC debt reduction program help in the transformation of the development assistance business and change the rules of the ‘debt game’ in Africa? We concentrate on the donor and official creditor side, by exploring how the growing debt of...

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Models of Economic Integration and Localized Growth

Bertola, Giuseppe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

Economic integration and free factor mobility may be expected to enhance the growth performance of a united Europe … more efficient factor allocations or faster growth. …

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Trade Liberalisation and Poverty: What have we learned in a decade?

Martuscelli, Antonio; Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper reviews key recent literature on the effects of trade liberalisation on poverty in developing countries and asks whether our knowledge has changed significantly over a decade. The conclusion that liberalisation generally boosts income and thus reduces poverty has not changed; some...

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Aid and Growth at the Regional Level

Dreher, Axel; Lohmann, Steffen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

test whether aid affects development, measured as nighttime light growth. Our preferred identification strategy exploits … excludable instrument. Overall, we find significant correlations between aid and growth in ADM2 regions, but no causal effects. …

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Dismantling Discrimination Against Developing Countries: Access, Rules and Differential Treatment

Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper discusses the challenges confronting developing countries seeking to overcome discrimination in world trade rules and policies. The major sources of discrimination in both developed and developing countries in the areas of market access opportunities and WTO disciplines are briefly...

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Economic Development and the WTO After Doha

Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper analyses what actions could be taken in the context of the WTO Doha negotiations to assist countries to benefit from deeper trade integration. It discusses the policy agenda that confronts many developing countries and identifies a number of focal points that could be used both as...

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