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Myth of Post-Reform Income Stagnation in Brazil.

Chamon, Marcos - 2006

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The Myth of Post-Reform Income Stagnation : Evidence from Brazil and Mexico

de Carvalho Filho, Irineu - 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409055

Social Spending, Human Capital, and Growth in Developing Countries; Implications for Achieving the Mdgs

Baldacci, Emanuele; Cui, Qiang; Clements, Benedict J.; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

linking social spending, human capital, and growth in a system of equations. The paper finds that both education and health … spending have a positive and significant direct impact on the accumulation of education and health capital, and thus can lead …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263905

Rising Child Poverty in Europe: Mitigating the Scarring from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hallaert, Jean-Jacques - 2023

Child poverty increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020 alone, the number of children suffering from … potential scarring effect of the pandemic, policies should be deployed to reduce rapidly the number of children affected by … poverty and mitigate the long-term impact of poverty. Reducing the number of children affected by poverty can be achieved by …

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Evolution of debt sustainability analysis in low-income countries : some aggregate evidence

Baduel, Benedicte; Price, Robert W. - 2012

The Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) for low-income countries (LICs) is a standardized analytical tool to monitor debt sustainability. This paper uses DSAs from three periods around the time of the global economic crisis to analyze the projected trajectories of debt ratios for a sample of...

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Monetization in low- and middle-income countries

McLoughlin, Cameron; Kinoshita, Noriaki - 2012

The degree of an economy's monetization, which has an important implication on economic growth, can be affected by the conduct of monetary policy, financial sector reform, and episodes of financial crises. The paper finds that monetization--measured by the ratio of broad money to nominal GDP--...

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Public investment, growth, and debt sustainability : putting together the pieces

Buffie, Edward E.; Berg, Andrew; Pattillo, Catherine A.; … - 2012

We develop a model to study the macroeconomic effects of public investment surges in low-income countries, making explicit: (i) the investment-growth linkages; (ii) public external and domestic debt accumulation; (iii) the fiscal policy reactions necessary to ensure debt-sustainability; and (iv)...

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Financial intermediation costs in low-income countries : the role of regulatory, institutional, and macroeconomic factors

Poghosyan, Tigran - 2012

We analyze factors driving persistently higher financial intermediation costs in low-income countries (LICs) relative to emerging market (EMs) country comparators. Using the net interest margin as a proxy for financial intermediation costs at the bank level, we find that within LICs a...

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Tariff-tax reforms in large economies

Ganelli, Giovanni; Tervala, Juha - 2012

This paper studies tariff-tax reforms in a calibrated two-region global New Keynesian model composed of a developing and an advanced region. In our baseline calibration, a revenue-neutral reform that lowers tariffs in developing countries can reduce domestic welfare. The reason is that the...

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Public Investment in Resource-Abundant Developing Countries.

Berg, Andrew - 2012

Natural resource revenues provide a valuable source to finance public investment in developing countries, which frequently face borrowing constraints and tax revenue mobilization problems. This paper develops a dynamic stochastic small open economy model to analyze the macroeconomic effects of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012690162

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