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Government Spending and Tax Revenue Decentralization and Public Sector Efficiency : Do Natural Disasters Matter?
Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venâncio, Ana - 2023
empirically link the public sector efficiency scores, to tax revenue and spending decentralization. First, we compute government … estimate the effect of decentralization on public sector efficiency and how extreme natural disasters mediate this relationship …. The sample covers 36 OECD countries between 2006 and 2019. Our results show that tax revenue decentralization decreases …
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Trade, growth and economic inequality in the Asia-Pacific region : lessons for policymakers
Greaney, Theresa M.; Karacaovali, Baybars - 2016
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Economic growth, income distribution, and climate change
Rezai, Armon; Taylor, Lance; Foley, Duncan K. - 2017
We present a model based on Keynesian aggregate demand and labor productivity growth to study how climate damage affects the long-run evolution of the economy. Climate change induced by greenhouse gas lowers profitability, reducing investment and cutting output in the short and long runs....
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Monetary policy and the top one percent: : evidence from a century of modern economic history
El Herradi, Mehdi; Leroy, Aurelien - 2020
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Self-serving dictators and economic growth
Haile, Daniel; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Verbon, Harrie - 2005
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Inequality Undermines Democracy and Growth
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2019
Income equality and trust seem to go along with several other ingredients of social capital as determinants of economic growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank and by The Standardized World Income Inequality...
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Do data show divergence? : revisiting global income inequality trends
Basu, Sudip Ranjan - 2017
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World Bank questions its Mozambique "success" : "remarkable growth" and oligarchs have brought high inequality, poverty and corruption
Hanlon, Joseph - 2022
At the end of the Cold War the west imposed economic "shock therapy" on the countries of the former Soviet Union to rapidly turn the communists into capitalists, creating oligarchs. One of the few Africa countries where shock therapy was imposed was Mozambique. Shock therapy was intended to push...
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How Economic Growth Impinges on Income Inequalities?
Alves, José; Coelho, Jose Carlos; Roxo, Alexandre - 2022
Performing a panel data analysis for OECD countries, during the period between 1990 and 2019, this article investigates the relationship between economic growth and income inequalities. The main objective is to understand how the GDP and GNI per capita affect income inequality and how they...
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Economic policy for sustainable development vs. greedy growth and preservationism
Ravago, Majah-Leah; Roumasset, James Alan; Balisacan, … - 2009 - Rev.
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