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The Leap of the Tiger : How Malaysia Can Escape the Middle-Income Trap
Cherif, Reda - 2015
-2010. Malaysia's real income per capita increased to 26 percent of the U.S. level in 2010 from 20 percent in 1970. Despite relatively … strong growth and a substantial improvement in export sophistication, Malaysia's total factor productivity lagged behind that … of Korea and Taiwan Province of China. We argue that what characterizes their experience in contrast to Malaysia's is the …
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The Growth and Stabilization Properties of Fiscal Policy in Malaysia
Rafiq, Sohrab - 2013
This paper examines the size of the fiscal multiplier values generated in Malaysia. The results show that a government …
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When is Economic Growth Pro-Poor? Experiences in Malaysia and Pakistan
Khan, Mahmood Hasan - 2021
This paper focuses on two central issues related to the contrasting experiences of Malaysia and Pakistan regarding …. Malaysia, unlike Pakistan, was able to sustain rapid economic growth with equally impressive reduction in poverty because the …
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Restructuring Reforms for Green Growth
Cevik, Serhan; Jalles, João Tovar - 2023
Policymakers across the world are striving to tackle the century-defining challenge of climate change without undermining potential growth. This paper examines the impact of structural reforms in the energy sector (electricity and gas) on enviromental outcomes and green growth indicators in a...
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Unleashing India's Growth Potential
Kotera, Shinya; Xu, TengTeng - 2023
This paper analyzes the drivers of India’s growth in the past five decades and considers baseline and upside scenarios of India’s medium-term potential growth. Using a production function approach, the paper assesses the impact of the pandemic on the key factors of production and therefore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014350825
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Eye of the Storm : The Impact of Climate Shocks on Inflation and Growth
Cevik, Serhan; Jalles, João Tovar - 2023
What is the impact of climate change on inflation and growth dynamics? This is not a simple question to answer as climate shocks tend to be ubiquitous, but with opposing effects simultaneously on demand and supply. The extent of which climate-related shocks affect inflation and economic growth...
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And Schumpeter Said, "this is How Thou Shalt Grow" : The Further Quest for Economic Growth in Poor Countries
Beaugrand, Philippe - 2013
The paper reviews the stylized facts on economic growth gathered by Easterly and Levine in their 2001 joint paper and illustrates some of the points made on the basis of data from the IMF's World Economic Outlook on real growth and per capita GDP since 1970. The data show that the growth...
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The Myth of Post-Reform Income Stagnation
Carvalho Filho, Irineu E. - 2008
Economic policies are often judged by a handful of statistics, some of which may be biased during periods of change. We estimate the income growth implied by the evolution of food demand and durable good ownership in post-reform Brazil and Mexico, and find that changes in consumption patterns...
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Macrofinancial Linkages and Growth at Risk in the Dominican Republic
Bespalova, Olga - 2019
This paper uses the Growth-at-Risk (GaR) methodology to examine how macrofinancial conditions affect the growth outlook and its probability distribution. Using this approach, we evaluate risks to GDP growth in the Dominican Republic using quarterly data for 1996-2018. We group macrofinancial...
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Machine Learning and Causality : The Impact of Financial Crises on Growth
Tiffin, Andrew - 2019
Machine learning tools are well known for their success in prediction. But prediction is not causation, and causal discovery is at the core of most questions concerning economic policy. Recently, however, the literature has focused more on issues of causality. This paper gently introduces some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858391