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What Makes Growth Sustained?
Ostry, Jonathan David - 2008
We identify structural breaks in economic growth in 140 countries and use these to define ""growth spells:"" periods of high growth preceded by an upbreak and ending either with a downbreak or with the end of the sample. Growth spells tend to be shorter in African and Latin American countries...
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Social spending in Korea : can it foster sustainable and inclusive growth?
Elekdaǧ, Selim Ali - 2012
Going forward, Korea faces two closely related challenges: sustaining economic growth against the backdrop of a rapidly aging population and ameliorating income inequality. This paper argues that a gradual increase in social spending could promote more sustainable and inclusive growth in Korea....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009659803
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The Elusive Quest for Inclusive Growth : Growth, Poverty, and Inequality in Asia
Balakrishnan, Ravi - 2013
This paper assesses how pro-poor and inclusive Asia's recent growth has been, and what factors have been driving these outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As a...
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Inflation, Inequality, and Social Conflict.
Crowe, Christopher W - 2006
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Rising Income Inequality : Technology, or Trade and Financial Globalization?
Papageorgiou, Chris - 2008
finding is that both globalization and technological changes increase the returns on human capital, underscoring the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409050
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Inequality and the Structure of Countries' External Liabilities
Harms, Philipp - 2022
attract equity-type capital inows. Our empirical results lend some support to this conjecture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015060441
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Life Expectancy and Income Convergence in the World
Ueda, Kenichi - 2008
There is world-wide convergence in life expectancy, despite little convergence in GDP per capita. If one values longer … life much more than material happiness, the world living standards may this have already converged substantially. This … among countries. A conventional GDP-based measure remains a good approximation for (non) convergence in world living s …
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Tax composition and growth : a broad cross-country perspective
Acosta-Ormaechea, Santiago; Yoo, Jiae - 2012
We investigate the relation between changes in tax composition and long-run economic growth using a new dataset covering a broad cross-section of countries with different income levels. We specifically consider 69 countries with at least 20 years of observations on total tax revenue during the...
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Output Drops and the Shocks That Matter.
Becker, Törbjörn I - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. MOTIVATION AND RELATED STUDIES -- II. OUTPUT DROPS -- III. SHOCKS -- IV. MULTIVARIATE PROBIT ANALYSIS -- V. ROBUSTNESS AND EXTENSIONS -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX TABLES AND FIGURES -- APPENDIX I. HODRICK-PRESCOTT-FILTER BASED DEFINITION OF EVENTS -- APPENDIX II. KERNEL...
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An Alternative Explanation for the Resource Curse
Alichi, Ali - 2009
The paper provides an alternative explanation for the ""resource curse"" based on the income effect resulting from high government current spending in resource rich economies. Using a simple life cycle framework, we show that private investment in the non-resource sector is adversely affected if...
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