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Loss-of-learning and the post-Covid recovery in low-income countries
Buffie, Edward F.; Adam, Christopher S.; Zanna, Luis-Felipe - 2022
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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Social programs and formal employment : evidence from the Brazilian Bolsa Família Program
Fruttero, Anna; Leichsenring, Alexandre Ribeiro; Paiva, … - 2020
Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create disincentives to work. While there is substantial evidence showing limited effects of these programs on overall labor supply, the jury is still out with respect to their impact on formal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252007
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Debt, investment, and growth in developing countries with segmented labor markets
Buffie, Edward F.; Zanna, Luis-Felipe; Adam, Christopher S. - 2020
policymakers' social discount rate and on the weight of distributional objectives in the social welfare function …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252029
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The African Continental Free Trade Agreement : welfare gains estimates from a general equilibrium model
Abrego, Lisandro E.; Amado, Maria Alejandra; Gursoy, Tunc; … - 2019
Rodriguez-Clare (2014), we estimate the welfare effects of the AfCFTA for 45 countries in Africa. Three different model … welfare gains from trade liberalization in Africa. As intra-regional import tariffs in the continent are already low, the bulk … specifications used, with considerable variation of potential welfare gains across countries in all model structures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102028
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Does child marriage matter for growth?
Mitra, Pritha; Pondi Endengle, Eric M.; Pant, Malika; … - 2020
Global attention to ending child marriage and its socio-economic consequences is gaining momentum. Ending child marriage is not only critical from a development perspective but it also has important economic implications. This paper is the first to quantify the relationship between child...
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The intensive margin in trade
Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Klenow, Peter J.; Meleshchuk, … - 2018
trade flows and welfare in the estimated model. The welfare effects turn out to be quite close to those in the standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978438
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"An analysis of U.S. fiscal and generational imbalances : who will pay and how?"
Batini, Nicoletta; Callegari, Giovanni; Guerreiro, Julia - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486240
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Gender budgeting in G20 countries
Alonso-Albarran, Virginia; Curristine, Teresa; Preston, … - 2021
budget process. This paper takes stock of GB practices in G20 countries and benchmarks country performance using a GB index … frameworks and budget preparation tools than with budget execution, monitoring and auditing. Too few countries assess the upfront …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796194
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Monitoring the climate impact of fiscal policy : lessons from tracking the COVID-19 response
Eltokhy, Khaled; Funke, Katja; Huang, Guohua; Kim, Yujin; … - 2021
In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, governments around the world announced unprecedented fiscal packages to address the economic impact of the crisis. The unusually large scale of the packages was accompanied by widespread calls for "greening" them to meet the dual goals of economic recovery and...
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Macro-fiscal management practices in Eastern and Southern Africa
Battersby, Bryn; Lienert, Ian - 2021
This paper examines the institutional arrangements of the macro-fiscal function in 16 African countries. Most ministries of finance (MoFs) have established a macro-fiscal department or unit, but their functions, size, structure and outputs vary considerably. Based on a survey, we present data on...
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