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A pragmatic approach to capital account liberalization
Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor);  … - 2008
developing countries and emerging markets. This suggests that the lack of domestic savings is not the primary constraint on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003697367
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Migration, international trade and capital formation : cause or effect?
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Grossmann, Volker; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2012
In this paper, we provide an overview of the relationship between international migration and international trade as well as capital movements. After taking a brief historical perspective, we first investigate migration flows between two countries in a static, neoclassical context. We allow for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009663906
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The impact of education on the subjective discount rate in Ugandan villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample of Ugandan villagers. In accordance with other studies, we have found the discount rate to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824853
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900319
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Optimal taxation with capital accumulation and wage bargaining
Palokangas, Tapio K. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001876718
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Improving access to savings through mobile money : experimental evidence from African smallholder farmers
Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2019
Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited … access to formal savings. This is the first study to use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of using mobile … money as a tool to promote agricultural investment. For this purpose, we designed and conducted a field experiment with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140124
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Rebalancing growth in Asia
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2009
region. In terms of sheer magnitudes, China's national savings and current account surpluses dominate the region's saving-investment …. -- Growth contributions ; national savings and investment ; current account balance ; welfare consequences of growth … growth. Investment growth has dominated GDP growth in China during this decade but is also important in the cases of India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879333
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Efficient tax policy ranks education higher than saving
Richter, Wolfram F. (contributor) - 2008
human and nonhuman capital investment ; power law of learning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688797
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Estimating the impact of immigrants on the host country social security system when return migration is an endogenous choice
Kirdar, Murat G. - 2010
In this paper, I estimate the fiscal impact of immigrants on the German pension insurance (PI) and unemployment insurance (UI) systems when return migration is an endogenous choice. For this purpose, I develop a dynamic stochastic model of joint return migration and saving decisions that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959164
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Source country characteristics and immigrants’ migration duration and saving decisions
Kirdar, Murat G. - 2010
substitute consumption intertemporally. However, the empirical results from immigrants in Germany reveal that optimal migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959295