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Natural Resource Endowment : A Mixed Blessing?
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2011
that arise along the way. Special attention is given to Norway, the world's third largest oil exporter, and the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129862
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Fiscal Policy During Business Cycles in Developing Countries : The Case of Africa
Leibfritz, Willi - 2013
Fiscal positions of African countries have improved significantly during the past decade. Higher economic growth, better terms of trade, improved donor support notably through debt relief and better control of expenditure contributed to this improvement. But at the same time government revenue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072104
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Fiscal Policy During Business Cycles in Developing Countries: The Case of Africa
Leibfritz, Willi; Rottmann, Horst - CESifo - 2013
Fiscal positions of African countries have improved significantly during the past decade. Higher economic growth, better terms of trade, improved donor support notably through debt relief and better control of expenditure contributed to this improvement. But at the same time government revenue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010718528
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Trends and Patterns of Growth, Development, Achievements of China and India : A Comparative Analysis
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2016
unprecedented growth and economic development — PRC and India became the second and fourth largest economies of the world …. This has resulted in a remarkable poverty reduction in the last two to three decades in the two economies. PRC and India … provide lessons to the developing world, particularly emerging economies, that are also struggling to improve their economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995197
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One Size Fits All? Decentralization, Corruption, and the Monitoring of Bureaucrats
Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2021
The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues that the devolution of power might be a feasible instrument to keep corruption at bay. We argue that this result crucially depends on the effectiveness of monitoring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316367
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Roles of Social Conformity in Deviance in Poverty : A Study on Working Poverty and Educational Investment in Bangladesh
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2013
In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075953
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Fighting Lone Mothers' Poverty Through In-Work Benefits - Methodological Issues and Policy Suggestions
Pronzato, Chiara - 2021
(2012) find a positive effect of the reform on lone mothers’ labour supply and a small reduction in poverty. Is the best … result that policy makers could obtain in terms of poverty reduction? In this paper, I estimate a discrete choice model of … have minimized poverty among lone mothers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315723
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GDP Growth, Private Debt and Monetary Policy
Cafiso, Gianluca - 2017
Economic research has considered Private Debt a determinant of GDP growth for years. By keeping this perspective, the objective of this work is to understand how much of the GDP response to a monetary shock is due to the variation of private debt. This is the marginal contribution of private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953691
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The Impact of Macro News and Central Bank Communication on Emerging European Forex Markets
Égert, Balázs - 2013
We employ two-stage empirical strategy to analyze the impact of macroeconomic news and central bank communication on the exchange rates of three Central and Eastern European (CEE) currencies against the euro. First we estimate the nominal equilibrium exchange rate based on a monetary model....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079876
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Monetary Transmission Mechanism in Transition Economies : Surveying the Surveyable
Égert, Balázs - 2013
This paper surveys recent advances in the monetary transmission mechanism (MTM). In particular, while laying out the functioning of the separate channels in the MTM, special attention is paid to exploring possible interrelations between different channels through which they may amplify or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754233