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The state, the market, and development
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2016
The state has played a major role in the most important developmental successes. This paper discusses the advances in our understanding of the role of the state in the developmental process over the past thirty years, and the contribution to those advances played by changes in economics, changes...
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China's growth miracle in the context of Asian transformation
Lin, Justin Yifu - 2018
Myrdal did not cover China in his Asian Drama. If he did, he would have been most likely pessimistic about China, as he was about other Asian countries in his book. However, China has achieved miraculous growth since the transition from a planned economy to a market economy at the end of 1978....
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Macroeconomic policies, growth, employment, and inequality in Latin America
Damill, Mário; Frenkel, Roberto - 2012
This paper examines the macroeconomic policies and outcomes experienced by the Latin American economies during the period 1990-2010. Macroeconomic policies refer to exchange rates, monetary and aggregate fiscal policies, while macroeconomic outcomes, on the other hand, refer to the patterns of...
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Policy regimes, inequality, poverty and growth : the Chilean experience, 1973 - 2010
Contreras Guajardo, Dante; Ffrench-Davis, Ricardo - 2012
Since the 1970s, Chile has exhibited a highly skewed income distribution accompanied with strong fluctuations over time. Although income distribution worsened notably in the 1970s-80s, a significant improvement was recorded in the first half of the 1990s, resulting from better economic and...
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Challenges to Inclusive Growth : A Poverty and Equity Assessment of Djibouti
World Bank Group - 2019
The objective of this report is to present a snapshot of the welfare landscape in Djibouti that will help stakeholders understand poverty's determinants. Exploiting data from the 2017 household expenditure survey, as well as administrative and geospatial data, it provides a detailed analysis of...
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Regional and subregional analyses of macroeconomic policy strategies for growth and equality in Southern Africa
Sahoo, Dukhabandhu; Mishra, Diptimayee; Sahoo, Auro Kumar; … - 2020
We investigate the relevance of beta (β, absolute and conditional) and sigma (σ) convergence in the economies of the Common Monetary Area of Southern Africa and in the provinces of the Republic of South Africa using panel data, allowing an understanding of growth and inequality in the region....
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Riding the wave : an East Asian miracle for the 21st century
Weltbank - 2017
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Taxation, social protection, and governance decentralization
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2016
. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …
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Decentralization reforms in Mozambique : the role of institutions in the definition of results
Forquilha, Salvador - 2020
the civil war in the early 1990s, the decentralization process began in Mozambique. Different research developed in recent … years shows that, as is the case in other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the impact of the decentralization reforms on the … explained? Based on three important reforms in the decentralization process in Mozambique, namely the '7 million …
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Fiscal decentralization and the shadow economy
Janský, Petr; Palanský, Miroslav - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2016
In this paper we use the new Government Revenue Dataset to analyse fiscal decentralization. We find that developed … fiscally decentralized regions. In our econometric analysis, we examine the relationship between fiscal decentralization and … the shadow economy. We hypothesize that decentralization can negatively or positively affect the size of the shadow …
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