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A big challenge for the economic development of small island countries is dealing with external shocks. The Pacific Islands are vulnerable to natural disasters, climate change, commodity price changes, and uncertain donor grants. The question that arises is how should small developing countries...
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to volatile foreign aid, in a small open economy model that incorporates typical features of low-income countries. Within … a class of policy rules, it jointly considers the optimal aid spending and international reserve accumulation policies … aid, while partially accumulating foreign exchange reserves to offset Dutch disease effects. Also, allocating relatively …
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, annual growth in countries in intense conflicts is about 2.5 percentage points lower, and the cumulative impact on per capita …
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France is the top agricultural producer in the European Union (EU), and agriculture plays a prominent role in the country's foreign trade and intermediate exchanges. Reflecting production volumes and methods, the sector, however, also generates significant negative environmental and public...
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We introduce a new suite of macroeconomic models that extend and complement the Debt, Investment, and Growth (DIG …'s properties by analyzing the growth, debt, and distributional consequences of big-push public investment programs with different …
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Traditionally, economic growth and business cycles have been treated independently. However, the dependence of GDP … levels on its history of shocks, what economists refer to as 'hysteresis,' argues for unifying the analysis of growth and …
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We analyze the medium-term macroeconomic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lock-down measures on low-income countries. We focus on the impact over the medium-run of the degradation of health and human capital caused by the pandemic and its aftermath, exploring the trade-offs between...
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We construct a new, comprehensive instrument-level database of sovereign debt for 18 advanced and emerging countries over the period 1913-46. The database contains data on amounts outstanding for some 3,800 individual debt instruments as well as associated qualitative information, including...
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We develop a New-Open-Economy-Macro model in which Ricardian equivalence does not hold because of (i) distortionary labor and corporate income taxation; (ii) limited asset market participation; and (iii) because the overlapping-generations structure results in a disconnect between current and...
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We develop a tractable open-economy new-Keynesian model with two sectors to analyze the short-term effects of aid …-financed fiscal expansions. We distinguish between spending the aid, which is under the control of the fiscal authorities, and … absorbing the aid-using the aid to finance a higher current account deficit-which is influenced by the central bank''s reserves …
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