Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,390
Cover Image
Syria's conflict economy
Gobat, Jeanne; Kostial, Kristina - 2016
Five years into the ongoing and tragic conflict, the paper analyzes how Syria's economy and its people have been … what it was before the war started and it could take two decades or more for Syria to return to its pre-conflict GDP levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011711573
Cover Image
Political institutions, state building, and tax capacity : crossing the tipping point
Gaspar, Vítor; Jaramillo, Laura; Wingender, Philippe - 2016
capacity building, highlighting three important political ingredients: constitutive institutions, inclusive politics and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716283
Cover Image
Income inequality in small states and the Caribbean : stylized facts and determinants
McIntyre, Meredith A.; Bejar, Pablo; Komatsuzaki, Takuji; … - 2021
Rising income inequality has emerged as a major policy issue facing policymakers, but there is a dearth of empirical work on inequality in small states, including the Caribbean. Despite data limitations, the empirical analysis using a sample of small states finds that increased openness and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518290
Cover Image
Globalizacija i neravnomernostʹ mirovogo razvitija
Simonija, Nodari A.; Choros, Vladimir Georgievič; … - In: Mirovaja ėkonomika i meždunarodnye otnošenija : MĖMO (2001) 3, pp. 35-44
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001576967
Cover Image
Globalizacija - protivorečivaja čerta sovremennogo mirovogo razvitija
Kojčuev, V. - In: Obščestvo i ėkonomika : meždunarodnyj naučnyj i … (2000) 3/4, pp. 189-197
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001493371
Cover Image
Mesto i rolʹ gosudarstva v processe razvitija
Gelʹbras, Vilʹ G. (contributor) - In: Mirovaja ėkonomika i meždunarodnye otnošenija : MĖMO (1998) 12, pp. 59-93
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001395873
Cover Image
Will the AI revolution cause a great divergence?
Alonso, Cristian; Berg, Andrew; Kothari, Siddharth; … - 2020
This paper considers the implications for developing countries of a new wave of technological change that substitutes pervasively for labor. It makes simple and plausible assumptions: the AI revolution can be modeled as an increase in productivity of a distinct type of capital that substitutes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012302048
Cover Image
Tax capacity and growth : is there a tipping point?
Gaspar, Vítor; Jaramillo, Laura; Wingender, Philippe - 2016
Is there a minimum tax to GDP ratio associated with a significant acceleration in the process of growth and development? We give an empirical answer to this question by investigating the existence of a tipping point in tax-to-GDP levels. We use two separate databases: a novel contemporary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716284
Cover Image
Debt build-up in frontier Low-Income Developing Countries (LIDCs) since 2012 : global or country-specific factors and way forward?
De Soyres, Constance; Rogantini Picco, Anna; Sab, Randa - 2019
This paper focuses on the debt build-up that frontier low-income developing countries (LIDCs) have faced since 2012. First, it documents a 20-percentage point increase in the external and government debt-to-GDP ratios, a composition shift toward higher non-concessional debt, and a rise in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009382
Cover Image
Institutions Rule : The Primacy of Institutions Over Integration and Geography in Economic Development
Subramanian, Arvind - 2002
We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining cross-country income … levels using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of institutions … ""trumps"" everything else. Controlling for institutions, geography have at best weak direct effects on incomes, although it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401492