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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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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012170160
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Disposal is not free : fiscal instruments to internalize the environmental costs of solid waste
Matheson, Thornton - 2019
This paper provides an overview of global solid waste generation, its environmental costs, and fiscal instruments that can be used to encourage waste reduction and finance proper disposal. Countries-especially island nations--struggle to manage an ever-increasing volume of solid waste,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012155061
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From Autarky to Integration : Imitation, Foreign Borrowing, and Growth
International Monetary Fund - 1998
differing roles of imitation and innovation in human capital accumulation. The country initially concentrates on imitation of … catch up with the rest of the world more rapidly than early developers, reflecting the relatively large imitation … growth and welfare for the country that imposes them …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403371
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Optimal monetary policy under bounded rationality
Benchimol, Jonathan; Bounader, Lahcen - 2019
associated with welfare losses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102200
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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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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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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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Gross national happiness and macroeconomic indicators in the Kingdom of Bhutan
Balasubramanian, Sriram; Cashin, Paul A. - 2019
This paper examines the origins and use of the concept of Gross National Happiness (or subjective well-being) in the … national surveys of Gross National Happiness in Bhutan, the concept has been used to guide public policymaking for the country … undertake more frequent Gross National Happiness surveys and evaluations, to better build evidence for comovement of well …
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