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The role of demographics in precipitating crises in financial institutions

Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009

There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...

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Foreign capital and economic growth

Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor); … - 2007

We document the recent phenomenon of "uphill" flows of capital from nonindustrial to industrial countries and analyze whether this pattern of capital flows has hurt growth in nonindustrial economies that export capital. Surprisingly, we find that there is a positive correlation between current...

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Labor market reforms and current account imbalances : beggar-thy-neighbor policies in a currency union?

Baas, Timo; Belke, Ansgar - 2014

Member countries of the European Monetary Union (EMU) initiated wide-ranging labor market reforms in the last decade. This process is ongoing as countries that are faced with serious labor market imbalances perceive reforms as the fastest way to restore competitiveness within a currency union....

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Equipping immigrants : migration flows and capital movements

Lange, Fabian (contributor); Gollin, Douglas (contributor) - 2007

Both policy makers and researchers have devoted considerable attention in recent years to the large current account and capital account imbalances among OECD countries. In particular, the size of the United States current account deficit has attracted intense attention and spawned numerous...

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Aggregate savings and external imbalances in China

Yang, Dennis Tao - 2012

Over the last decade, the internal and external macroeconomic imbalances in China have risen to unprecedented levels. In 2008, China's national savings rate soared to over 53 percent of its GDP, whereas its current account surplus exceeded 9 percent of GDP. The current paper presents a unified...

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Oil price shocks, monetary policy and current account imbalances within a currency union

Baas, Timo; Belke, Ansgar - 2017

For more than two decades now, current-account imbalances are a crucial issue in the international policy debate as they threaten the stability of the world economy. More recently, the government debt crisis of the European Union shows that internal current account imbalances inside a currency...

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Does a food for education program affect school outcomes? : The Bangladesh case

Meng, Xin (contributor); Ryan, Jim G. (contributor) - 2007

"The Food for Education (FFE) program was introduced to Bangladesh in 1993. This paper evaluates the effect of this …

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Family planning as an investment in development : evaluation of a program's consequences in Matlab, Bangladesh

Joshi, Shareen (contributor); Schultz, T. Paul (contributor) - 2007

"The paper analyzes 141 villages in Matlab, Bangladesh from 1974 to 1996, in which half the villages received from 1977 …

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Early childbirth, health inputs and child mortality : recent evidence from Bangladesh

Maitra, Pushkar (contributor); Pal, Sarmistha (contributor) - 2007

This paper examines the relationship between early childbearing and child mortality in Bangladesh, a country where …

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Economic growth and child poverty reduction in Bangladesh and China

Begum, Syeda Shahanara; Deng, Quheng; Gustafsson, Björn - 2011

This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … found to be more extensive in Bangladesh than in China, and is very much a problem for rural children in both countries. The … of child income as well as in the demographic composition. -- child poverty ; economic growth ; Bangladesh ; China …

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