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This paper looks at the empirical record whether big infrastructure and public capital drives have succeeded in accelerating economic growth in low-income countries. It looks at big long-lasting drives in public capital spending, as these were arguably clear and exogenous policy decisions. On...
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suggest there are still significant spillovers from Nigeria's main trading partners, including the US, with trade and …
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This paper uses VAR models to examine the magnitude and sources of growth spillovers to the Baltics from key trading …-country spillovers to the Baltics with those from the EU outweighing spillovers from Russia. Shocks to the REER generally depress growth … of spillovers to the region which partly explains the realization of downside risks to the Baltics from the global …
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We estimate international technology spillovers to U.S. manufacturing firms via imports and foreign direct investment … gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI spillovers is economically important, accounting for about 11 percent of … productivity growth in U.S. firms between 1987 and 1996. In addition, there is some evidence for import-related spillovers, but it …
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This study investigates the role of India's economy in explaining the observed growth in South Asia, taking into consideration other sources of growth endogenous to the countries in the region. Since a review of key variables indicates that India's bilateral trade and financial linkages with...
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The paper assesses the impact of fiscal spillovers on growth in the context of a coordinated exit from crisis … management policies. We find that despite potentially sizeable domestic effects from consolidation, aggregate negative spillovers …
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, providing useful tailwinds to their recovery process? This study investigates the potential relevance of growth spillovers in … Japan remain the key source of growth spillovers in this recovery, with France also playing an important role for the … spillovers compared to other systemic countries, but likely plays a key role in transmitting and amplifying external growth …
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This paper examines the economic and financial linkages between Morocco and Tunisia and their European partners. Using structural vector autoregressions, we find that growth shocks in European partner countries generate significant responses on growth in Morocco and Tunisia. For Tunisia, exports...
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commodity prices. Other advanced economic regions play a much smaller and regional role in growth spillovers. Our findings are …
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This paper analyzes the evolution of the degree of global cyclical interdependence over the period 1960-2005. We categorize the 106 countries in our sample into three groups-industrial countries, emerging markets, and other developing economies. Using a dynamic factor model, we then decompose...
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