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China's impacts on SSA through the lens of growth and exports

Mu, Yibin; Wang, Chu; Wu, Dong - 2017

The analysis of China's impacts on the 44 SSA countries reveals that: (i) after joining the WTO in 2001, China has … started to impact significantly on SSA growth: one-percent increase in China's GDP per capita leads to 0.02 percent increase … on the SSA's GDP per capita; (ii) oil and investment-goods exporters benefit more from China's growth; (iii) compared to …

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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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Income inequality in small states and the Caribbean : stylized facts and determinants

McIntyre, Meredith A.; Bejar, Pablo; Komatsuzaki, Takuji; … - 2021

Rising income inequality has emerged as a major policy issue facing policymakers, but there is a dearth of empirical work on inequality in small states, including the Caribbean. Despite data limitations, the empirical analysis using a sample of small states finds that increased openness and...

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Technological progress, artificial intelligence, and inclusive growth

Korinek, Anton; Schindler, Martin; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2021

Advances in artificial intelligence and automation have the potential to be labor-saving and to increase inequality and poverty around the globe. They also give rise to winner-takes-all dynamics that advantage highly skilled individuals and countries that are at the forefront of technological...

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Does an inclusive citizenship law promote economic development?

Imam, Patrick; Kpodar, Kangni - 2019

This paper analyzes the impact of citizenship laws on economic development. We first document the evolution of citizenship laws around the world, highlighting the main features of jus soli, jus sanguinis as well as mixed regimes, and shedding light on the channels through which they could have...

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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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How do climate shocks affect the impact of FDI, ODA and remittances on economic growth?

Drabo, Alassane - 2021

The three main financial inflows to developing countries have largely increased during the last two decades, despite the large debate in the literature regarding their effects on economic growth which is not yet clear-cut. An emerging literature investigates the dependence of their effects on...

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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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Credit Booms and macroeconomic dynamics : stylized facts and lessons for low-income countries

Arena, Marco; Bouza, Serpil; Dabla-Norris, Era; … - 2015

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