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Capital account policies, IMF programs and growth in developing regions
Bicaba, Zorobabel; Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli - 2015
policymakers' beliefs about the impact of capital account liberalization on growth, under the 'Mundell's trilemma constraint. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469677
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The political U : new evidence on democracy and income
Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Frigerio, Marco - 2022
-2018, we show that the causal relationship between political and economic development is U-shaped: "intermediate" political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412764
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The impact of climate change on work lessons for developing countries
Feriga, Moustafa; Lozano Gracia, Nancy; Serneels, Pieter - 2024
This paper identifies five areas where climate change may impact work and draws lessons for developing countries by reviewing the evidence. Firstly, demand for labor is unevenly affected, with agriculture, heat-exposed manufacturing, and the brown energy sector experiencing downturns, while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512228
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The effects of mental health interventions on labor market outcomes in low- and middle-income countries
Lund, Crick; Orkin, Kate; Witte, Marc; Walker, John; … - 2024
Mental health conditions are prevalent but rarely treated in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Little is known about how these conditions affect economic participation. This paper shows that treating mental health conditions substantially improves recipients' capacity to work in these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014550417
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The emigration life cycle: how development shapes emigration from poor countries
Clemens, Michael A. - 2020
Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … average emigration first rises, then falls with development. But this hypothesis has not been tested with global datasets … destinations, and +0.74 to rich destinations. This relationship between emigration flows and economic growth is highly robust to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269072
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Monetary policy, growth and employment in developing areas : a review of the literature
Junankar, Pramod N. - 2019
In this paper we review the literature on the impact that monetary policy has on growth and employment in developing … sometimes on output (GDP) levels and volatility of output. This survey of the literature on Monetary policy and growth shows … that money plays a small role in developing countries and that monetary policy is not a very important influence on growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011988624
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The dynamics of the regulation of labor in developing and developed countries since 1960
Campos, Nauro; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - 2012
time (1960-2004.) More important as determinants of such changes are the level of development and other reforms such as … trade liberalization. With respect to the effects of changes in the rigidity of labor regulations on growth and inequality … rigidity do not systematically affect economic growth but do lower income inequality. -- employment protection legislation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629025
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Firm-level upgrading in developing countries
Verhoogen, Eric - 2021
In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be adopted, a process often referred to as industrial upgrading. But for many firms this advantage remains elusive....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698696
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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581726
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Roots of autocracy
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017
Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of humans from Africa tens of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011670896