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Measuring Quarterly Economic Growth from Outer Space
Beyer, Robert - 2022
This paper presents a novel framework to estimate the elasticity between nighttime lights and quarterly economic activity. The relationship is identified by accounting for varying degrees of measurement errors in nighttime light data across countries. The estimated elasticity is 1.55 for...
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Creating Sustainable Fiscal Space for Infrastructure
Ter-Minassian, Teresa - 2008
A common dilemma facing governments around the world is how to meet the sizeable fiscal costs of providing and … maintaining infrastructure networks. Over the past decade, developed and developing countries have looked to fiscal rules … instruments to raise additional finance for infrastructure investment. This paper looks at the range of options for raising the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677684
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Creating Sustainable Fiscal Space for Infrastructure : The Case of Tanzania
Ter-Minassian, Teresa - 2008
A common dilemma facing governments around the world is how to meet the sizeable fiscal costs of providing and … maintaining infrastructure networks. Over the past decade, developed and developing countries have looked to fiscal rules … instruments to raise additional finance for infrastructure investment. This paper looks at the range of options for raising the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409074
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Benchmarking Infrastructure Using Public Investment Efficiency Frontiers
Kapsoli, Javier - 2023
With limited financing options, increasing investment efficiency will be a critical avenue to building infrastructure … scores for a wide range of countries employing metrics of infrastructure quantity and utilization. We find that efficiency … inefficiencies could increase infrastructure output by 55 percent overall, when averaging across 12 estimation approaches …
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The Myth of Post-Reform Income Stagnation
Carvalho Filho, Irineu E. - 2008
Economic policies are often judged by a handful of statistics, some of which may be biased during periods of change. We estimate the income growth implied by the evolution of food demand and durable good ownership in post-reform Brazil and Mexico, and find that changes in consumption patterns...
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How Can Burundi Raise Its Growth Rate?The Impact of Civil Conflicts and State Intervention on Burundi's Growth Performance
Basdevant, Olivier - 2009
Over the last thirty years Burundi's low economic growth has led to a significant decline in per capita GDP. The purpose of this paper is to shed light on supply-side constraints that prevented Burundi's economy from growing faster. Lack of investment, civil conflict, economic inefficiencies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677702
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Why Isn't South Africa Growing Faster? A Comparative Approach
Eyraud, Luc - 2009
The purpose of this paper is to examine factors that have constrained South Africa's growth since the end of apartheid by comparing its GDP components and its saving and investment performance with those of 10 faster-growing countries. The study finds that sluggish investment has undermined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677704
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Reassessing GDP Growth in Countries with Statistical Shortcomings - A Case Study on Turkmenistan
Gogoberishvili, Levan - 2023
Reliable national accounts are essential for proper economic analyses and informed policymaking by national authorities as well as other stakeholders. Nevertheless, in many countries, national accounts statistics are subject to serious shortcomings, which are often manifested as overestimated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015059057
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Public Debt and Real GDP: Revisiting the Impact
de Soyres, Constance - 2022
This paper provides new empirical evidence of the impact of an unanticipated change in public debt on real GDP. Using public debt forecast errors, we identify exogenous changes in public debt to assess the impact of a change in the debt to GDP ratio on real GDP. By analyzing data on gross public...
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D Spillovers and Institutions.
Coe, David T. - 2008
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. DATA -- III. ECONOMETRIC PRELIMINARIES -- IV. "INTERNATIONAL R&D SPILLOVERS" REVISITED -- V. INSTITUTIONS AND INTERNATIONAL R&D SPILLOVERS -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX A: ALTERNATIVE SPECIFICATION -- APPENDIX B: DATA SOURCES AND DEFINITIONS --...
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