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School Resources and Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries : A Review of the Literature from 1990 to 2010

Glewwe, Paul W. - 2011

Developing countries spend hundreds of billions of dollars each year on schools, educational materials and teachers, but relatively little is known about how effective these expenditures are at increasing students' years of completed schooling and, more importantly, the skills that they learn...

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The Stock of External Sovereign Debt : Can We Take the Data At 'Face Value'?

Dias, Daniel A. - 2011

The stock of sovereign debt is typically measured at face value. This is a misleading indicator when debts are issued with different contractual forms. In this paper we construct a new measure of the stock of external sovereign debt for 100 developing countries from 1979 to 2006 that is...

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The Future of Economic Convergence

Rodrik, Dani - 2011

The question addressed in this paper is whether the gap in performance between the developed and developing worlds can continue, and in particular, whether developing nations can sustain the rapid growth they have experienced of late. The good news is that growth in the developing world should...

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Corruption in Developing Countries

Olken, Benjamin A. - 2011

Recent years have seen a remarkable expansion in economists' ability to measure corruption. This, in turn, has led to a new generation of well-identified, microeconomic studies. We review the evidence on corruption in developing countries in light of these recent advances, focusing on three...

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Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows, and Global Imbalances

Alfaro, Laura - 2011

We construct measures of net private and public capital flows for a large cross-section of developing countries considering both creditor and debtor side of the international debt transactions. Using these measures, we demonstrate that sovereign-to-sovereign transactions account for upstream...

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China and India as Suppliers of Affordable Medicines to Developing Countries

Hafner, Tamara - 2011

As countries reform their patent laws to be in compliance with the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights Agreement … pharmaceutical trade data from 1996 to 2005, we examine the role of China and India as suppliers of medicines to other middle- and … low-income countries and evaluate the competitive effect of medicine imports from these countries on the price of …

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Globalization, Structural Change and Productivity Growth

McMillan, Margaret S. - 2011

high-productivity activities are a key driver of development. Our results show that since 1990 structural change has been …

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Education as Liberation?

Friedman, Willa - 2011

Scholars have long speculated about education's political impacts, variously arguing that it promotes modern or pro-democratic attitudes; that it instills acceptance of existing authority; and that it empowers the disadvantaged to challenge authority. To avoid endogeneity bias, if schooling...

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Finance and Governance in Developing Economies

Morck, Randall - 2011

Classic Big Push industrialization envisions state planners coordinating economic activity to internalize a range of externalities that otherwise lock in a low-income equilibrium, but runs afoul of well-known government failure problems. Successful Big Push coordination may occur instead when a...

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Free vs. Controlled Migration : Bilateral Country Study

Razin, Assaf - 2011

This paper tests the differential effects of the generosity of the welfare state under free migration and under policy-controlled migration, distinguishing between source developing and developed countries. We utilize free-movement within the EU to examine the free migration regime and compare...

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