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, using panel data for 1,527 subnational regions in 83 nations from 1950-2014. This data structure allows us to exploit within …
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panel data for the period 1990-2021. The empirical evidence suggests that financial inclusion is indeed related to economic …
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This paper discusses the recent literature on the role of the state in economic development. It concludes that government incentives to enact sound policies are key to economic success. It also discusses the evidence on what happens after episodes of economic and political liberalizations,...
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The paper reviews recent literature on the economics of migration and diasporas, focusing on economic gains and opportunities that these diasporas could represent for home countries. In addition, the paper discusses policies aimed at leveraging this "diaspora capital".
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While the short-term growth consequences of natural disasters are comparatively well studied, there is little knowledge how disasters affect long-run growth. Based on truly exogenous storm indicators, derived from a meteorological database, we show that the growth effects of tropical storms go...
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In this paper, we study development in a panel of 87 countries from 1970 to 2005. We focus on characterizing … as measured by GDP to that measured by the Human Development Index (HDI). We do so within a novel dynamic panel modelling … institutional quality. -- human development ; institutions ; dynamic panel modelling …
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We assess empirically the role of the World Bank’s Country Policy so-called fiscal policy rating variables (fiscal rating, debt rating and revenue rating) on economic growth in the 46 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in the world, during the period 1990-2022. We also investigate the role of...
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panel data models. It analyzes the behavior of these estimators in the cases of no self-flow data, unbalanced data, and … dynamic autoregressive models. The main results are then generalized for higher dimensional panel data sets as well. …
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regional inequality based on cross-section data. Panel regressions investigate the within-country changes in inequality, i …
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a unique panel of inequality estimates for 24 transitional countries for the period 1989-1998. The fixed effects model …
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