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Priority Roads : The Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads
Bonfatti, Roberto - 2019
Africa’s interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...
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On the Exchange Rate and Economic Policy Uncertainty Nexus : A Panel VAR Approach for Emerging Markets
Abid, Abir - 2020
We examine the Exchange Rate Volatility (ERV) response to the Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) shocks from a panel VAR perspective used for the first time in this context. Focusing on Emerging Market Economies (EME), our noteworthy findings postulate that (a) both home and foreign EPU shocks...
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The Interplay of Economic, Social and Political Fragmentation
Bosworth, Steven - 2019
This paper examines how skill-biased growth can generate economic fragmentation (income dis-parities) that give rise to social fragmentation (the adoption of increasingly incompatible social identities and values), which generate political fragmentation (the adoption of increasingly incompatible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859600
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Is There Job Polarization in Developing Economies? A Review and Outlook
Martins-Neto, Antonio; Mathew, Nanditha; Mohnen, Pierre; … - 2022
This paper analyses the evidence of job polarization in developing and emerging economies. We carry out an extensive literature review, revealing that job polarization in these countries is only incipient compared to other advanced economies. We then examine the possible moderating aspects...
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Protectionism and Economic Growth : Causal Evidence from the First Era of Globalization
Potrafke, Niklas; Ruthardt, Fabian; Wuthrich, Kaspar - 2021
government revenue. However, the results do not suggest that the protectionist government stimulated the economy by increasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227482
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Natural resource endowment: A mixed blessing?
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2011
This paper deals with the implications of natural resources for the conduct of economic policies and the role and design of institutions in resource-rich countries. The paper briefly reviews the experience of a few resource-rich countries, highlighting the successes of those that have done well...
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The Process of Economic Development in West Sichuan : The Case of Daocheng County
Holz, Carsten A. - 2020
Economic development of a remote, mountainous region is a challenge for any country. This paper examines how this development challenge has been addressed in a high-altitude backward region of the People's Republic of China. Is this region increasingly being left behind or has it entered a...
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Shedding Light on the Shadow Economy : A Global Database and the Interaction with the Official One
Medina, Leandro - 2019
estimating the size of the shadow economy for 157 countries over 1991 to 2017. The results suggest that the OECD countries are by … far the lowest with values below 20% of off official GDP and the shadow economy is larger in Latin America and Sub ….9%. What is really remarkable, that the average decline of the shadow economy from 1991 to 2017 is 6.8 percentage points. The …
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Tracking Weekly State-Level Economic Conditions
Baumeister, Christiane; Leiva-Leon, Danilo; Sims, Eric R. - 2021
allows us to gauge the overall weakness of the U.S. economy. We also illustrate the usefulness of these state-level indices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220135
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History, expectations, and public policy: Economic development in Eastern Germany
Schäfer, Andreas; Steger, Thomas M. - 2010
macroeconomic model of a small open economy where both capital and labor are mobile and there are increasing returns to scale at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276791