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Proximity and horizontal policies : the backbone of export diversification and complexity

Salinas, Gonzalo - 2021

The lack of a clear link between general economic fundamentals and export diversification indicators in the literature has fueled the believe that industrial policies are an absolute requisite to diversify exports. This paper, however, does find a strong statistical connection between horizontal...

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Gender inequality and economic growth : evidence from industry-level data

Bertay, Ata Can; Dordevic, Ljubica; Sever, Can - 2020

We study whether higher gender equality facilitates economic growth by enabling better allocation of a valuable resource: female labor. By allocating female labor to its more productive use, we hypothesize that reducing gender inequality should disproportionately benefit industries with...

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Are the Asia and Pacific small states different from other small states?

Tumbarello, Patrizia; Cabezon, Ezequiel; Wu, Yiqun - 2013

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COVID-19 in Latin America : a high toll on lives and livelihoods

Bakker, Bas B.; Gonçalves, Carlos Eduardo Soares - 2021

Latin America was hit hard by Covid-19, both in terms of lives and livelihoods. Early lockdowns in the second quarter of 2020 prevented an explosion of deaths at the time but did not stop the pandemic from later wreaking havoc in the region. This paper investigates the dynamics of pandemics in...

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Do Resource Windfalls Improve the Standard of Living in Sub-Saharan African Countries? : Evidence from a Panel of Countries

Lee, Munseob - 2015

, especially via increases in income and decreases in inequality. However, in SSA countries, the size of welfare improvement is …

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Are the Asia and Pacific Small States Different from Other Small States?

Tumbarello, Patrizia - 2013

The small states of the Asia and Pacific region face unique challenges in raising their growth potential and living standards relative to other small states due to their small populations, geographical isolation and dispersion, narrow export and production bases, exposure to shocks, and heavy...

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Political institutions, state building, and tax capacity : crossing the tipping point

Gaspar, Vítor; Jaramillo, Laura; Wingender, Philippe - 2016

An empirical finding by Gaspar, Jaramillo and Wingender (2016) shows that once countries cross a tax-to-GDP threshold of around 12 3/4 percent, real GDP per capita increases sharply and in a sustained manner over the following decade. In this paper, we attempt via four case studies-Spain, China,...

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Tax capacity and growth : is there a tipping point?

Gaspar, Vítor; Jaramillo, Laura; Wingender, Philippe - 2016

Is there a minimum tax to GDP ratio associated with a significant acceleration in the process of growth and development? We give an empirical answer to this question by investigating the existence of a tipping point in tax-to-GDP levels. We use two separate databases: a novel contemporary...

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Mozambique : Economic Rehabilitation and the Poor

Lopes, Paulo Silva - 1991

relative income position. However, in the presence of a large refugee population and war-related destruction, there continues … profile of the lowest income groups in Mozambique and examines how they were affected by the economic recovery program of 1986 …

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Trade and income in the long run : are there really gains, and are they widely shared?

Cerdeiro, Diego A.; Komaromi, Andras - 2017

In the cross section of countries, there is a strong positive correlation between trade and income, and a negative …) identification strategy, and exploit countries' exogenous geographic characteristics to estimate the causal effect of trade on income … and inequality. Our cross-country estimates for trade's impact on real income are consistently positive and significant …

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