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Vietnam's Development Success Story and the Unfinished SDG Agenda
Baum, Anja - 2020
Despite starting as one of the poorest countries in the mid-1980s, Vietnam has achieved rapid developmental progress …, reaching lower middle-income status in 2010. In line with rapid economic growth, Vietnam has achieved impressive progress … towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) during this time. This paper sheds light on some elements of Vietnam …
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Collect More, Spend Better : Public Investment in Asian Frontier Markets
Ghazanchyan, Manuk - 2017
sustainability for three fast-growing Southeast Asian economies: Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. We show that a gradual public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962142
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Credit Misallocation and Economic Growth in Vietnam
Katagiri, Mitsuru - 2019
the efficiency of financial intermediation and are an importantpolicy issue in Vietnam. This paper presents a theoretical … stateowned enterprises and private firms in Vietnam. On the theoretical side, a micro-foundedbanking model is embedded in a …
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Transforming Non-Renewable Resource Economies (NREs)
Battaile, Bill - 2015
This paper provides an empirical benchmarking of growth, productivity and export patterns for developing NREs against other low and middle income developing countries, to inform policy discussions and future analytical work. There is stark heterogeneity in the association of resource sector and...
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Make in India : Which Exports Can Drive the Next Wave of Growth?
Anand, Rahul - 2015
Structural transformation depends not only on how much countries export but also on what they export and with whom they trade. This paper breaks new ground in analyzing India's exports by the technological content, quality, sophistication, and complexity of the export basket. We identify five...
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Structural Reforms and Productivity Growth in Emerging Market and Developing Economies
Dabla-Norris, Era - 2016
This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across countries at different stages of development, using a distance-to-frontier framework. It gauges whether particular policies and reforms matter more for increasing productivity...
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Taxation and Development - Again
Keen, Michael - 2012
Issues of taxation and development, which have long been a central concern of the IMF, have attracted wider and renewed interest in the last few years. This paper reflects on three broad lessons of experience: that developing countries differ vastly in tax matters, and in ways that are less than...
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Capital Inflows, Financial Development, and Domestic Investment : Determinants and Inter-Relationships
Luca, Oana - 2012
We examine determinants of, and interactions between, capital inflows, financial development, and domestic investment in developing countries during 2001-07, a period of surging global liquidity and low interest rates. Reductions in the global price of risk and in domestic borrowing costs were...
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Domestic Amplifiers of External Shocks : Growth Accelerations and Reversals in Emerging Market and Developing Economies
Gruss, Bertrand - 2019
External conditions have been found to influence the tendency of emerging market and developing economies to experience episodes of growth accelerations and reversals. In this paper we study the role of domestic policies and other structural attributes in amplifying or mitigating the effect that...
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Middle East Transitions : A Long, Hard Road
Yusuf, Shahid - 2014
Since the onset of the Arab Spring, economic uncertainty in Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen (Arab Countries in Transition, ACTs) has slowed already sluggish growth; worsened unemployment, particularly of youth; undermined business confidence, affected tourist arrivals, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048367