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that they give only marginal trade preference to the CEECs. The paper also considers FDI and aid flows and argues that …
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The paper develops the view that the perspective on the HIPC initiative is distorted by the fact that – contrary to the Brady deal itself – it lacks all perspective on the ‘market value’ of the debt which is written down. The appropriate ‘market value’ is one that takes account of...
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Using a model of probabilistic voting, we analyse the impact of aid on the political equilibrium in the recipient … aid on the political equilibrium and therefore on the quality of the policy (using the utilitarian social welfare as a … quality by aid can help to explain the poor performance of conditionality in improving policy. Perhaps more surprising is the …
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Where imports are financed predominantly by rents from resource extraction or aid, the revenue generated by tariffs is … illusory. Revenue earned by the tariff is offset by a reduction in the real value of aid and resource rents. Revenue is however … moved between accounts in the government budget, which, in the case of aid, may reduce the burden of donor conditionality …
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The paper surveys the interactions between aid and trade, distinguishing between policies and outcomes as well as … between various instruments. It first discusses the theoretical literature, focusing on the causal impact of aid on the …
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The response of an economy to a windfall of foreign exchange (be it aid or natural resource revenues) is often …
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We construct an open economy disequilibrium model to assess the welfare effects of aid in different macroeconomic … regimes. Aid is shown to have different effects in different unemployment regimes because it increases the social costs of …
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There is often a gap between the prescriptions of an "optimal" tax system and actual tax systems, some of which can be neither efficient economically nor efficient at redistributing income. With a focus on personal income taxes, this paper reviews the political economics literature on tax...
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The recent theoretical literature on the determinants of trade agreements has stressed the importance of political gains, such as credibility, as a rationale for trade agreements. The empirical literature, however, has lagged behind in the estimation of the economic gains or losses associated...
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Barack Obama’s victory in the 2009 presidential elections in the United States is widely credited to his personal charisma and his extraordinary rhetorical powers, as revealed throughout the campaign. President Obama was inaugurated in the midst of the worst economic crisis in the country,...
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