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HIV/AIDS : The Impacton Poverty and Inequality

Haacker, Markus - 2006

poverty and inequality. We find that the epidemic lowers average income and increases poverty, and that the jump in poverty is … larger than expected from the fall in average income. This disproportionate increase in poverty reflects the large share of … the population living on the threshold of poverty and the higher HIV prevalence rates in those segments of the population …

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Safe debt and uncertainty in emerging markets : an application to South Africa

Saxegaard, Magnus - 2014

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Structural reform packages, sequencing, and the informal economy

Munkacsi, Zsuzsa; Saxegaard, Magnus - 2017

This paper explores the macroeconomic impacts of labor and product market deregulation using a small open-economy model with formal and informal markets. We examine both the long-run effects and the transition towards the post-reform equilibrium, while our main focus are reform packages and...

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The consequences of policy uncertainty : disconnects and dilutions in the South African real effective exchange rate-export relationship

Hlatshwayo, Sandile; Saxegaard, Magnus - 2016

In recent years, the link between the real effective exchange rate (REER) and exports in South Africa has weakened. While exports still rise in response to REER depreciations, the REER-export elasticity is below historical estimates. The literature has put forward a number of possible...

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It's not what you make, it's how you use it : measuring the welfare benefits of the IT revolution across countries

Bayoumi, Tamim A.; Haacker, Markus - 2002

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It's Not What You Make, it's How You Use it : Measuring the Welfare Benefits of the it Revolution Across Countries

Bayoumi, Tamim - 2002

This paper analyzes the welfare benefits from falling relative prices of IT (information technology) goods across a wide range of countries. We find, using two separate methodologies and datasets, that welfare benefits mainly accrue to users of IT, not their producers, because of falling...

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