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When is Growth Pro-Poor? Cross-Country Evidence
Kraay, Aart - 2006
Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth …: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a … poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I empirically decompose changes in poverty in a large sample of …
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Effective Labor Taxation and the International Location of Headquarters
Egger, Peter H. - 2012
Profit taxes are widely acknowledged to influence the location of firms' headquarters. This paper sheds light on the role of aspects of labor taxation for the international location of headquarters. While profit taxes can be avoided in various ways, it is much harder for firms to manipulate the...
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Is human development multidimensional?
French, Declan; Moore, Michael J.; Canning, David - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 25 (2013) 4, pp. 445-455
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Sacks, Daniel W. - 2011
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
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A Quality of Growth Index for Developing Countries : A Proposal
Mlachila, Montfort - 2014
This paper proposes a new quality of growth index (QGI) for developing countries. The index encompasses both the intrinsic nature and social dimensions of growth, and is computed for over 90 countries for the period 1990-2011. The approach is premised on the fact that not all growth is created...
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Tax Composition and Growth : A Broad Cross-Country Perspective
Acosta Ormaechea, Santiago LE - 2012
We investigate the relation between changes in tax composition and long-run economic growth using a new dataset covering a broad cross-section of countries with different income levels. We specifically consider 69 countries with at least 20 years of observations on total tax revenue during the...
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Structural Reforms, IMF Programs and Capacity Building : An Empirical Investigation
Arezki, Rabah - 2012
This paper investigates the role that International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs and capacity building play in fostering structural reforms. To do so, we exploit two novel datasets on IMF capacity building and structural reforms available for over one hundred IMF member countries over the period...
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Education Attainment in Public Administration Around the World : Evidence from a New Dataset
Arezki, Rabah - 2012
The paper provides a detailed description of a novel dataset on education attainment in public administrations covering the period 1981-2011 for 178 countries. The dataset uses information extracted from CVs for over 130,000 mid to senior level officials from mainly central banks and ministries...
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How Buoyant is the Tax System? New Evidence from a Large Heterogeneous Panel
Dudine, Paolo - 2017
In this paper we provide short- and long-run tax buoyancy estimates for 107 countries (distributed between advanced, emerging and low-income) for the period 1980-2014. By means of Fully-Modified OLS and (Pooled) Mean Group estimators, we find that: i) for advanced economies both long-run and...
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Harnessing Windfall Revenues : Optimal Policies for Resource-Rich Developing Economies
van der Ploeg, Rick - 2009
A windfall of natural resource revenue (or foreign aid) faces government with choices of how to manage public debt, investment, and the distribution of funds for consumption, particularly if the windfall is both anticipated and temporary. We show that the permanent income hypothesis prescription...
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