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The Macroeconomics of Scaling Up Aid
Mongardini, Joannes - 2009
This paper assesses the macroeconomic implications of scaling up aid for Benin in line with the Gleneagles commitment to double aid to poor countries over the next three years to reach 85 per capita by 2010 and keep it at that level thereafter. The analysis suggests that the additional aid...
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Development Aid and Economic Growth
Reddy, Sanjay - 2009
We analyze the growth impact of official development assistance to developing countries. Our approach is different from that of previous studies in two major ways. First, we disentangle the effects of two kinds of aid: developmental and non-developmental. Second, our specifications allow for the...
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Evaluating Alternative Approaches to Poverty Alleviation
Dorosh, Paul A. - 2008
This paper uses a partial equilibrium framework to evaluate the relative efficiency, distributional and revenue implications of rice tariffs and targeted transfers in Madagascar, especially in the context of identifying their respective roles for poverty alleviation. Although there are likely to...
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The Spending and Absorption of Aid in PRGF Supported Programs
Martijn, Jan Kees - 2008
This paper studies the spending and absorption of aid in PRGF-supported programs, verifies whether the use aid is programmed to be smoothed over time, and analyzes how considerations about macroeconomic stability influence the programmed use of aid. It finds that PRGF-supported programs allow...
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The Macroeconomic Impact of Scaled-up Aid
Sacerdoti, Emilio - 2009
We develop a simple macroeconomic model that assesses the effects of higher foreign aid on output growth and other macroeconomic variables, including the real exchange rate. The model is easily tractable and requires estimation of only a few basic parameters. It takes into account the impact of...
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Do Capital Inflows Spur Technology Diffusion? Evidence from a New Technology Adoption Index
Cugat, Gabriela - 2024
We construct a novel measure of technology adoption, the Embodied Technology Imports Indicator (ETI), available for 181 countries over the period 1970-2020. The ETI measures the technological intensity of imports of each country by leveraging patent data from PATSTAT and product-level trade data...
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Why are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising?
Chamon, Marcos - 2008
From 1995 to 2005, the average urban household saving rate in China rose by 7 percentage points, to ¼ of disposable … income. We use household-level data to explain the postponing of consumption despite rapid income growth. Tracing cohorts …
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Household Income As A Determinant of Child Labor and School Enrollment in Brazil
Carvalho Filho, Irineu E. - 2008
This paper studies the effects of household income on labor participation and school enrollment of children aged 10 to … 14 in Brazil using a social security reform as a source of exogenous variation in household income. Estimates imply that … the gap between actual and full school enrollment was reduced by 20 percent for girls living in the same household as an …
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Is Housing Wealth an 'ATM'? The Relationship Between Household Wealth, Home Equity Withdrawal, and Saving Rates.
Klyuev, Vladimir - 2006
INNOVATION AND LIBERALIZATION ON HOME EQUITY WITHDRAWAL ( HEW) AND SAVING -- IV. TRENDS IN HEWAND HOUSEHOLD SAVING ACROSS … COUNTRIES -- V. HOW DOES HEW AFFECT HOUSEHOLD SAVING? -- VI. ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS -- VII. RECENT EXPERIENCE OF HEW IN AUSTRALIA …
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Wealth Effects in Europe : A Tale of Two Countries (Italy and the United Kingdom)
Muñoz, Sònia - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. Household Data on Wealth and Consumption -- III. Capital Markets in Europe … and Household Portfolios -- IV. The Life-Cycle Model of Consumption -- V. The Basic Model -- VI. Empirical Results -- VII …
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