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Novta, Natalija; Pugacheva, Evgenia - 2020

Macroeconomic costs of conflict are generally very large, with GDP per capita about 28 percent lower ten years after conflict onset. This is overwhelmingly driven by private consumption, which falls by 25 percent ten years after conflict onset. Conflict is also associated with dramatic declines...

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China’s labor market in the “new normal”

Lam, W. Raphael; Liu, Xiaoguang; Schipke, Alfred - 2015

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Stranded! : how rising inequality suppressed US migration and hurt those “left behind”

Bayoumi, Tamim A.; Barkema, Jelle - 2019

Using bilateral data on migration across US metro areas, we find strong evidence that increasing house price and income … inequality has reduced long distance migration, the type most linked to jobs. For those migrating uphill, from a less to a more … dominate the incentives from higher earnings. By contrast, increasing income inequality drives the fall in downhill migration …

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Are African households heterogeneous agents? : stylized facts on patterns of consumption, employment, income and earnings for macroeconomic modelers

Fox, Louise - 2015

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Regional Convergence and the Role of Federal Transfers in Canada

Swagel, Phillip - 2003

significant negative effect on output convergence?by discouraging migration within Canada?the Equalization transfers may have …

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Inequality and locational determinants of the distribution of living standards in India

Balasubramanian, Sriram; Dhir, Rishabh Kumar; Loungani, … - 2021

economic migration from rural to urban areas within a fast-growing emerging economy. While individuals cannot easily alter …

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Remittances in Russia and Caucasus and Central Asia : the gravity model

Poghosyan, Tigran - 2020

Remitances are an important source of external financing in low- and middle-income countries. This paper uses the gravity model to analyze remittance flows in Russia and Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) countries. Standard gravity determinants, such as GDP in sending and recieiving countries,...

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A governance dividend for Sub-Saharan Africa?

Hammadi, Amine; Mills, Marshall; Souza Sobrinho, Nelson … - 2019

Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) tend to lag those in most other regions in terms of governance and perceptions of corruption. Weak governance undermines economic performance through various channels, including deficiencies in government functions and distortions to economic incentives. It...

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Domestic amplifiers of external shocks : growth accelerations and reversals in emerging market and developing economies

Gruss, Bertrand; Nabar, Malhar; Poplawski-Ribeiro, Marcos - 2019

External conditions have been found to influence the tendency of emerging market and developing economies to experience episodes of growth accelerations and reversals. In this paper we study the role of domestic policies and other structural attributes in amplifying or mitigating the effect that...

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Assessing oil and non-oil GDP growth from space : an application to Yemen 2012-17

Debbich, Majdi - 2019

This paper uses an untapped source of satellite-recorded nightlights and gas flaring data to characterize the contraction of economic activity in Yemen throughout the ongoing conflict that erupted in 2015. Using estimated nightlights elasticities on a sample of 72 countries for real GDP and 28...

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