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Dominance Testing of Social Sector Expenditures and Taxes in Africa

Sahn, David E. - 1999

This paper examines the progressivity of social sector expenditures and taxes in eight sub-Saharan African countries. It uses dominance tests to determine whether health and education expenditures redistribute resources to the poor. The paper finds that social services are poorly targeted. Among...

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The Disconcerting Pyramids of Poverty and Inequality of Sub-Saharan Africa

Lopes, Paulo Silva - 2005

Poverty and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) should not be ascertained only on the basis of scarce and unreliable income distribution statistics, but should also take into account social conditions. Recent, widely disseminated claims that poverty and inequality have increased over the past...

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Foreign Direct Investment in Africa : Some Case Studies

Basu, Anupam - 2002

This paper reviews the experiences of a few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that have succeeded in attracting fairly large amounts of foreign investment. The review indicates that sustained efforts to promote political and macroeconomic stability and implement essential structural reforms have...

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Trade and inclusive growth

Bacchetta, Marc; Cerra, Valerie; Piermartini, Roberta; … - 2021

This paper surveys the literature on the relationship between international trade and inclusive growth. It examines claims that the rise in inequality in many countries can be attributed to the concurrent rise in trade competition, especially from EMEs like China, spurring trade tensions and...

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Financial globalization and inequality : capital flows as a two-edged sword

Eichengreen, Barry; Csonto, Balazs; ElGanainy, Asmaa Adel; … - 2021

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The distribution of gains from globalization

Lang, Valentin; Mendes Tavares, Marina - 2018

We study economic globalization as a multidimensional process and investigate its effect on incomes. In a panel of 147 … countries during 1970-2014, we apply a new instrumental variable, exploiting globalization's geographically diffusive character …, and find differential gains from globalization both across and within countries: Income gains are substantial for …

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Globalization and Income Inequality : A European Perspective

Harjes, Thomas - 2007

There is growing concern in Europe over the impact of globalization on high and evenly shared living standards. These …

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What drives the global land rush?

Arezki, Rabah - 2011

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Global firms, national corporate taxes : an evolution of incompatibility

Hebous, Shafik - 2020

How did the rise of multinational enterprises (MNEs) put pressure on the prevailing international corporate tax framework? MNEs, and firms with market power, are not new phenomena, nor is the corporate income tax, which dates to the early 20th century. This prompts the question, what is...

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FDI, global value chains, and local sourcing in developing countries

Amendolagine, Vito; Presbitero, Andrea; Rabellotti, Roberta - 2017

The local sourcing of intermediate products is one the main channels for foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers. This paper investigates whether and how participation and positioning in the global value chains (GVCs) of host countries is associated to local sourcing by foreign investors....

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