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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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Resource-rich countries face large and persistent shocks, especially coming from volatile commodity prices. Given the severity of the shocks, it would be expected that these countries adopt countercyclical fiscal policies to help shield the domestic economy. Taking advantage of a new dataset...
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The hydrocarbons sector has become one of the most dynamic economic activities in the Bolivian economy and the main driver of improved export performance and international reserve accumulation. The central role of the hydrocarbons sector in the economy is attributable to the high levels of...
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The hydrocarbons sector has become one of the most dynamic economic activities in the Bolivian economy and the main driver of improved export performance and international reserve accumulation. The central role of the hydrocarbons sector in the economy is attributable to the high levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012685001
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE MODEL -- III. PARTIAL AND GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM EFFECTS OF FOREIGN AID AND MACROECONOMIC POLICY -- IV. THE OPTIMAL TIMING OF AID AND MACROECONOMIC POLICY -- V. THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MACROECONOMIC POLICIES IN AID-RECEIVING COUNTRIES -- VI. CONCLUSIONS...
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Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE CHALLENGE OF FORMULATING AN MDG SCENARIO -- III. THE FIRST-GENERATION MDG SCENARIO FOR ETHIOPIA -- IV. A "SECOND-GENERATION" MDG SCENARIO FOR ETHIOPIA -- V. REMAINING CHALLENGES -- References.
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Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN NATURAL RESOURCES AND GOVERNANCE IN BOTSWANA -- III. METHODOLOGY -- IV. EMPIRICAL RESULTS -- V. POLICY IMPLICATIONS -- VI. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.
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This paper gauges the potential effects on employment of rebalancing China's exportoriented growth model toward … existing and new services as well as reorienting the production of tradable goods toward domestic markets. In China's case … paper shows that while rebalancing China's growth toward a domestic-demand-led economy would likely raise aggregate e …
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Over the past decade, China's growth model has become more reliant on investment and its footprint in global imports … has widened substantially. Several economies within China's supply chain are increasingly exposed to its investment …-led growth and face growing risks from a deceleration in investment in China. This note quantifies potential global spillovers …
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We present a stylized real model of the Chinese economy with the objective of explaining two features: (1) domestic production is highly competitive in the sense that an accumulation of capital that raises the marginal product of labor elicits increases in employment and output rather than only...
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