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Tackling legal impediments to women's economic empowerment
Christopherson, Katharine; Yiadom, Audrey; Johnson, … - 2022
reflect and perpetuate gender norms that limit women's economic participation, and removal of these impediments through legal …, and the United States) that rank high in gender equality in their respective regions demonstrate how legal reforms have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170246
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Exploring the output effect of fiscal policy shocks in low income countries
Honda, Jiro; Miyamoto, Hiroaki; Taniguchi, Mina - 2020
statistically significant output effect under floating exchange rate regimes. For the estimation of the output effects of fiscal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252736
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The (subjective) well-being cost of fiscal policy shocks
Eklou, Kodjovi M.; Fall, Mamour - 2020
Do discretionary spending cuts and tax increases hurt social well-being? To answer this question, we combine subjective well-being data covering over half a million of individuals across 13 European countries, with macroeconomic data on fiscal consolidations. We find that fiscal consolidations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012170083
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Gender equality and inclusive growth
Fernández, Raquel; Isakova, Asel; Luna, Francesco; … - 2021
This paper considers various dimensions and sources of gender inequality and presents policies and best practices to … promotes gender equality. Despite recent progress, gender gaps remain across all stages of life, including before birth, and … negatively impact health, education, and economic outcomes for women. The roadmap to gender equality has to rely on legal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518760
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Imported food price shocks and socio-political instability : do fiscal policy and remittances matter?
Meyimdjui, Carine - 2020
Using a panel of 101 low- and middle-income countries with data covering the period 1980-2012, this paper applies various econometric approaches that deal with endogeneity issues to assess the impact of food price shocks on socio-political instability once fiscal policy and remittances have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392596
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Macroeconomic Effects of Government Spending Shocks : New Evidence Using Natural Disaster Relief in Korea
Yang, Weonho - 2012
We investigate the macroeconomic effects of government spending shocks in Korea. We compare results obtained with two alternative approaches: the narrative approach and Structural Vector-Autoregressive model (SVAR). We propose a new methodology for identifying exogenous and unexpected fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100013
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Macroeconomic effects of reforms on three diverse oil exporters : Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the UK
Beidas-Strom, Samya; Lorusso, Marco - 2019
We build and estimate open economy two-bloc DSGE models to study the transmission and impact of shocks in Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom. After accounting for country-specific fiscal and monetary sectors, we estimate their key policy and structural parameters. Our findings suggest...
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Commodity Price Shocks and Fiscal Outcomes
Samaké, Issouf - 2012
The experience of developing countries over 1990-2010 indicates that commodity prices have a significant impact on fiscal outcomes. Both revenue and expenditure rise in response to commodity (import or export) price increases; the response of the fiscal deficit is ambiguous. A floating exchange...
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Commodity Price Shocks and the Oddson Fiscal Performance
Kumah, Francis Y. - 2005
probabilities deteriorate significantly, however, in the long term after the transitory positive commodity price shock has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404226
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Procyclical Fiscal Policy : Shocks, Rules, and Institutions: A View From Mars
Manasse, Paolo - 2006
This paper assesses the roles of shocks, rules, and institutions as possible sources of procyclicality in fiscal policy. By employing parametric and nonparametric techniques, I reach the following four main conclusions. First, policymakers'' reactions to the business cycle is different depending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403030