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Income and Democracy; Lipset's Law Revisited
Hoeffler, Anke; Bates, Robert H.; Fayad, Ghada - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
democracy: higher/lower incomes per capita hinder/trigger democratization. Decomposing overall income per capita into its …We revisit Lipset‘s law, which posits a positive and significant relationship between income and democracy. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242229
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Targeting Social Transfers to the Poor in Mexico
Coady, David - 2009
Mexico's main social support program, Oportunidades, combines two methods to target cash to poor households: an initial self-selection by households who acquire knowledge about the program and apply for benefits, followed by an administrative determination of eligibility based on a means test....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677728
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Harnessing Satellite Data to Improve Social Assistance Targeting in the Eastern Caribbean
Chen, Sophia - 2024
Prioritizing populations most in need of social assistance is an important policy decision. In the Eastern Caribbean, social assistance targeting is constrained by limited data and the need for rapid support in times of large economic and natural disaster shocks. We leverage recent advances in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015058517
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Income and democracy : Lipset's law revisited
Fayad, Ghada; Bates, Robert H.; Hoeffler, Anke - 2012
democracy: higher/lower incomes per capita hinder/trigger democratization. Decomposing overall income per capita into its …We revisit Lipset?s law, which posits a positive and significant relationship between income and democracy. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009679679
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A Model of Sovereign Debt in Democracies
Alichi, Ali - 2008
sovereign debt is to maintain access to international capital markets. However, in a democracy, one generation may choose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677458
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677563
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Geopolitics and International Trade: The Democracy Advantage
Cevik, Serhan - 2024
to the question by analyzing the joint impact of democracy and geopolitical distance between countries with an augmented … distance in determining bilateral trade flows and that democracy fosters international trade and moderates the potential … negative impact of geopolitics. While the impact of democracy and its interaction with geopolitical distance are significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015058709
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Recession and policy transmission to Latin American tourism : does expanded travel to Cuba offset crisis spillovers?
Romeu, Rafael; Wolfe, Andy - 2011
This study measures the impact of changing economic conditions in OECD countries on tourist arrivals to countries/destinations in Latin America and the Caribbean. A model of utility maximization across labor, consumption of goods and services at home, and consumption of tourism services across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487105
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Intra-regional spillovers in South America : is Brazil systemic after all?
Adler, Gustavo; Sosa, Sebastián - 2012
Shocks stemming from Brazil - the large neighbor in South America - have historically been a source of concern for policy-makers in other countries of the region. This paper studies the importance of Brazil's influence on its neighboring economies, documenting trade linkages over the last two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009618584
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Latin America : vulnerabilities under construction?
Cubeddu, Luis; Tovar, Camilo Ernesto; Tsounta, Evridiki - 2012
This paper documents developments in mortgage credit and the housing sector in Latin America over the past decade, and compares them with those of other emerging economies. In particular, it examines the real estate and mortgage markets to assess whether (i) growth in mortgage credit is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009620961