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The socio-economic impact of special economic zones : evidence from Cambodia

Brussevich, Mariya - 2020

This study examines the socio-economic impact of special economic zones (SEZs) in Cambodia---a prominent place …-based policy established in 2005. The paper employs a database on existing and future SEZs in Cambodia with matched household … surveys at the district level and documents stylized facts on SEZs in a low-income country setting. To identify causal effects …

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The investment-financing-growth nexus : the case of Liberia

Clark, Will; Rosales, Manuel - 2013

Liberia is facing large infrastructure gaps and developmental needs that constrain the country’s growth potential. The government has set an ambitious agenda to transform the economy and to reach middle-income country status by 2030 by scaling up investment in infrastructure and human capital....

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Epidemics, gender, and human capital in developing countries

Fabrizio, Stefania; Gomes, Diego Braz Pereira; … - 2021

Epidemics have disrupted lives for centuries with deleterious human capital and economic repercussions. In this paper, we investigate how epidemics episodes have impacted school dropouts in developing countries, considering 623 epidemics episodes across countries from 1970 to 2019. Our estimates...

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Returns to Human Capital and Investment in New Technology

Luzio, Rodolfo - 2001

This paper presents a simple framework that illustrates the link between skill-based wage differentiation and human capital acquisition given skill-biased technical progress. The analysis points to the economic costs resulting from labor market and income redistribution policies that prevent the...

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Migration and Human Capital Formation : Theory and Evidence From the U.S. High School Movement

Ramcharan, Rodney - 2002

In 1910, 12 percent of American 14-17 year olds were enrolled in high school; by 1930, enrollment had increased to 50 percent; enrollment in Britain was 12 percent in 1950. This paper argues that by increasing the skill premium, the massive inflows of European unskilled immigrants at the turn of...

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Composition of Government Expenditure, Human Capital Accumulation, and Welfare

Matovu, John - 2000

This paper uses a dynamic general equilibrium model calibrated to Ugandan data to examine the welfare effects of alternative scenarios of government expenditure and tax financing. Two expenditure types are considered: social spending that affects human capital, and infrastructure expenditures...

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Human Capital Accumulation and Public Sector Growth

Tanzi, Vito - 1995

The present paper takes a fresh theoretical and empirical look into the relationship between Wagner’s law and economic development. It introduces human capital into a classic two-sector model of unbalanced growth. It shows that, as an economy develops, changes in the relative returns to human...

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The direct employment impact of public investment

Moszoro, Marian - 2021

We evaluate the direct employment effect of the public investment in key infrastructure-electricity, roads, schools and hospitals, and water and sanitation. Using rich firm-level panel data from 41 countries over 19 years, we estimate that USD 1 million of public spending in infrastructure...

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Regional disparities, growth, and inclusiveness

Floerkemeier, Holger; Spatafora, Nikola; Venables, Anthony - 2021

We discuss regional disparities in economic performance and living standards. We first set out some key facts, and provide a conceptual framework to help analyze whether such disparities are efficient, or instead reflect market and/or policy failures. We examine whether policy attempts to reduce...

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The Macroeconomic Impact of Scaled-Up Aid : The Case of Niger

Sacerdoti, Emilio - 2009

We develop a simple macroeconomic model that assesses the effects of higher foreign aid on output growth and other macroeconomic variables, including the real exchange rate. The model is easily tractable and requires estimation of only a few basic parameters. It takes into account the impact of...

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