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Toward Sustainable and Equitable Development: Sector Strategies for Latin America and the Caribbean Title: Hacia un desarrollo sostenible y equitativo: Estrategias sectoriales para...

Jarque, Carlos M. (contributor) - Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American …

The Bank has prepared a new set of strategies, presented in this volume, for the two overarching objectives established (Sustainable Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction and Promotion of Social Equity) and for each of the four priority areas highlighted in the Institutional Strategy...

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Fiscal federalism, decentralization and economic growth : survey and meta-analysis

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Feld, Lars P.; Schnellenbach, Jan - 2014

decentralization on economic growth. Much of the traditional literature focuses on the efficiency aspects of a decentralized provision … of public services. However, decentralization may also increase growth by raising the ability of the political system to … innovate and carry out reforms. On the contrary, some authors argue that decentralization increases corruption and government …

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State capacity, national economic policies and local development : the Russian state in the Southern Urals

Asmus, Gerda; Franck, Raphaël - 2022

This study analyzes how state capacity shapes the local impact of national policies by exploiting a quasi-natural experiment in the regional expansion of the state. It uses the local discontinuity created by the boundary of the largest peasant rebellion in 18th century Russia where the state...

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China's growth miracle in the context of Asian transformation

Lin, Justin Yifu - 2018

Myrdal did not cover China in his Asian Drama. If he did, he would have been most likely pessimistic about China, as he was about other Asian countries in his book. However, China has achieved miraculous growth since the transition from a planned economy to a market economy at the end of 1978....

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Macroeconomic policies, growth, employment, and inequality in Latin America

Damill, Mário; Frenkel, Roberto - 2012

This paper examines the macroeconomic policies and outcomes experienced by the Latin American economies during the period 1990-2010. Macroeconomic policies refer to exchange rates, monetary and aggregate fiscal policies, while macroeconomic outcomes, on the other hand, refer to the patterns of...

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Policy regimes, inequality, poverty and growth : the Chilean experience, 1973 - 2010

Contreras Guajardo, Dante; Ffrench-Davis, Ricardo - 2012

Since the 1970s, Chile has exhibited a highly skewed income distribution accompanied with strong fluctuations over time. Although income distribution worsened notably in the 1970s-80s, a significant improvement was recorded in the first half of the 1990s, resulting from better economic and...

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Regional and subregional analyses of macroeconomic policy strategies for growth and equality in Southern Africa

Sahoo, Dukhabandhu; Mishra, Diptimayee; Sahoo, Auro Kumar; … - 2020

We investigate the relevance of beta (β, absolute and conditional) and sigma (σ) convergence in the economies of the Common Monetary Area of Southern Africa and in the provinces of the Republic of South Africa using panel data, allowing an understanding of growth and inequality in the region....

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From Institutions to Financial Development and Growth: What Are the Links?

FERNÁNDEZ MARTIN, ANDRÉS; Tamayo, Cesar - Inter-American Development Bank - 2015

This paper presents an integrated overview of the literature linking institutions, financial development and economic growth. From the large body of research on institutional development, the paper first selects those contributions that make it possible to study the role of institutional...

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Does Size Matter? Yes, If You are Caribbean!

Ruprah, Inder J. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

This policy brief reviews whether the size of a country limits economic growth. Diseconomies of scale, indivisible fixed costs and geographic barriers represent intrinsic characteristics of small economies that might hinder economic growth. However, while some small economies have overcome the...

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Depressing dependence? : transfers and economic growth in the German States, 1975-2005

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Feld, Lars P.; Necker, Sarah - 2016

Most countries pay substantial intergovernmental transfers to poor regions. Since these transfers are often paid with the aim of achieving regional convergence, they should have a positive effect on economic growth. However, it is equally possible that transfers perpetuate under-development by...

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