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Borrowing Costs and the Role of Multilateral Development Banks : Evidence from Cross-Border Syndicated Bank Lending

Gurara, Daniel - 2019

Cross-border bank lending is a growing source of external finance in developing countries and could play a key role for infrastructure financing. This paper looks at the role of multilateral development banks (MDBs) on the terms of syndicated loan deals, focusing on loan pricing. The results...

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Household Consumption Volatility and Poverty Risk : Case Studies from South Africa and Tanzania

Bellon, Matthieu - 2020

Economic volatility remains a fact of life in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). Household-level shocks create large consumption fluctuations, raising the incidence of poverty. Drawing on micro-level data from South Africa and Tanzania, we examine the vulnerability to shocks across household types (e.g....

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Financial Access Under the Microscope

Agarwal, Sumit - 2018

We examine the impact of a large-scale microcredit expansion program on financial access and the transition of previously unbanked borrowers to commercial banks. Using administrative micro-data covering the universe of loans to individuals from a developing country, we show that the program...

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Mobile Phone Ownership and Welfare : Evidence from South Africa's Household Survey

Miyajima, Ken - 2021

Digitalization is accelerating as countries fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. In this context, the impact of mobile phone ownership on welfare (represented by consumption) is estimated for South Africa using rich household survey data in a panel format, the National Income Dynamics Study...

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Private Savings and COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa

Loko, Boileau; Nembot, Nelie; Poplawski-Ribeiro, Marcos - 2022

The paper reexamines the main private savings determinants in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), followed by an analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic impact on private savings in SSA and other country groupings. Using an unbalanced panel data from 1983−2021 for 31 SSA economies, the paper finds that real...

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Constructing a Positive Shock : Growth Through the Lens of Option Pricing

Cangul, Mehmet - 2023

Low-income economies face negative shocks whose frequency and disproportionate impact overcome growth trajectories, producing a negative drift. COVID-19 was the latest such episode. To escape this negative drift, and build a durable recovery, there is a need for a counter-balancing force: to...

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Determinants of COVID-19 Vaccine Rollouts and Their Effects on Health Outcomes

Deb, Pragyan; Furceri, Davide; Jiménez, Daniel; … - 2022

This paper examines empirically the determinants of COVID-19 vaccine rollouts and their effects on health outcomes. We … assemble a comprehensive and novel cross-country database at a daily frequency on vaccinations and various health outcomes (new …’s health infrastructure, and vaccine acceptance are significant determinants of the speed of vaccination rollouts; (ii) vaccine …

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Heterogeneous Spending, Heterogeneous Multipliers

Muratori, Umberto; Juarros, Pedro; Valderrama, Daniel - 2023

Do local fiscal multipliers depend on what the government purchases? We find that government purchases of services have larger effects on employment than spending on goods. Industries producing services are more labor-intensive than industries producing goods. This heterogeneity in labor...

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Is Military Spending Converging Across Countries? An Examination of Trends and Key Determinants

Clements, Benedict - 2019

This paper studies the evolution of worldwide military spending during 1970-2018. It finds thatmilitary spending in relation to GDP is converging, but into three separate groups of countries. Inthe largest group, responsible for 90 percent of worldwide spending, outlays have remainedstubbornly...

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Fiscal Consequences of Terrorism

Cevik, Serhan - 2016

This paper provides an empirical analysis of how the frequency and severity of terrorism affectgovernment revenue and expenditure during the period 1970-2013 using a panel dataset on153 countries. We find that terrorism has only a marginal negative effect on tax revenueperformance, after...

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