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The Macroeconomics of Medium-Term Aid Scaling-Up Scenarios
Portillo, Rafael - 2010
We develop a model to analyze the macroeconomic effects of a scaling-up of aid and assess the implications of different policy responses. The model features key structural characteristics of low-income countries, including varying degrees of public investment efficiency and a learning-by-doing...
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Aid Volatility and Dutch Disease : Is there a Role for Macroeconomic Policies?
Tressel, Thierry - 2006
This paper studies how macroeconomic policies can help offset two unintended and undesirable features of foreign aid: its volatility and Dutch disease. We present evidence that aid volatility augments trade balance volatility and that foreign aid, with the important exception of years of adverse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401877
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Pity the Finance Minister : Issues in Managing a Substantial Scaling-Up of Aid Flows
Heller, Peter S. - 2005
Substantially scaling up of aid flows will require development partners to address many issues, including the impact of higher aid flows on: the competitiveness of aid recipients; the management of fiscal and monetary policy; the delivery of public services; behavioral incentives; and the rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404186
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Aid and the Dutch Disease in Low-Income Countries : Informed Diagnoses for Prudent Prognoses
Nkusu, Mwanza - 2004
This paper demonstrates that the Dutch disease need not materialize in low-income countries that can draw on their idle productive capacity to satisfy the aid-induced increased demand. Diagnoses on, and prognoses for, the Dutch disease should take into account country-specific circumstances to...
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Resource windfalls, macroeconomic stability and growth : the role of political institutions
Arezki, Rabah - 2011
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The macroeconomic effects of natural resource extraction : applications to Papua New Guinea
Basu, Suman; Gottschalk, Jan; Schule, Werner; Vellodi, … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757316
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Resource Windfalls, Macroeconomic Stability and Growth : The Role of Political Institutions
Kazimov, Kazim - 2011
We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the performance of commodity-exporting countries in terms of macroeconomic stability and economic growth in a panel of up to 129 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main findings are threefold. First, we find that overall government...
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Natural resource taxation in Mexico : some considerations
Shah, Alpa - 2021
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Is there money on the table? : evidence on the magnitude of profit shifting in the extractive industries
Beer, Sebastian; Devlin, Dan - 2021
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Mining spillovers in Chile
Pérez Ruiz, Esther - 2017
estimates the effect of copper price shocks on mining, manufacturing, and construction-each embodying a sector type. The … empirical findings are for positive spillovers from mining to the other two sectors. However, the estimated size of the … spillovers seems modest, which raises the question of the potential for mining to be better integrated with the rest of the …
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