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How Relevant Is Infrastructure to Growth in East Asia?

Seethepalli, Kalpana; Bramati, Maria Caterina; Veredas, … - 2012

This paper seeks to shed some light on the extent to which infrastructure sub-sectors - energy, telecommunications, water supply, sanitation, and transport - contributed to growth in East Asia during 1985-2004. It also attempts to provide additional insights on whether the relationship between...

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Governance for inclusive growth

Ivanyna, Maksym; Salerno, Andrea - 2021

The government's ability to deliver inclusive growth crucially depends on the quality of governance. This paper reviews the linkages between governance and inclusive growth, and key policies to improve governance. The policies include (1) structural reform, automation, improving rules and...

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The level of productivity in traded and non-traded sectors for a large panel of countries

Mano, Rui; Castillo, Marola - 2015

This paper explains in detail the construction of series for productivity in the traded and nontraded sectors for a panel of 56 countries spanning 1989–2012. The level of productivity in each sector is defined as real value added per worker in constant 2005 Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) U.S....

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MTEFs and Fiscal Performance : Panel Data Evidence

Grigoli, Francesco; Mills, Zachary; Verhoeven, Marijn - 2013

In the last two decades more than 120 countries have adopted a version of a Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF). These are budget institutions whose rationale it is to enable the central government to make credible multi-year fiscal commitments. This paper analyzes a newly-collected dataset...

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Characterizing the Expenditure Uncertainties of Industrial Countries in the 21st Century

Heller, Peter S. - 2005

A number of uncertainties about long-term expenditure commitments in industrial countries are examined: (i) the assumptions underlying the projections, (ii) the potential to further reduce non-age-related expenditures, (iii) the implicitly assumed absence of ""shocks,"" and (iv) the potential...

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Gender-Responsive Government Budgeting

Sarraf, Feridoun - 2003

This paper examines the concept of gender-responsive government budgeting, promoted in recent years by women''s nongovernmental organizations, academia, and multilateral organizations, and the extent of its implementation by national governments in both advanced and developing countries. Owing...

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Kenya's Quest for Growth Stabilization and Reforms--But Political Stability?

Bandiera, Luca; Kumar, Praveen; Pinto, Brian - 2012

Kenya has long had a reputation of being politically risky, manifested in corruption, uncertainty about policies, and … the importance of political connections in doing business. Kenya began its economic liberalization in 1993. Reform picked …

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Implications of the Uruguay Round for Kenya

Chandha, Rupa - 1996

This paper studies the implications of the Uruguay Round for Kenya’s own trade regime and its external trading … environment. The analysis indicates that Kenya did not undertake significant liberalization commitments under the Uruguay Round …. There are however, several effects on Kenya’s external trading environment due to most-favored nation tariff cuts, erosion …

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Potential growth in emerging Asia

Anand, Rahul; Cheng, Kevin C.; Rehman, Sidra; Zhang, Longmei - 2014

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Estimating Global Climate Change Impacts on Hydropower Projects : Applications in India, Sri Lanka and Vietnam

Iimi, Atsushi - 2012

. Three projects are considered - in India, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. The results are still tentative in terms of both …

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