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Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the...
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We investigate the impact of health aid on infant mortality conditional on the quality of governance in 96 recipient countries. Our analysis applies the long difference estimator and instrumental variable estimation, with aid instrumented by donor government fractionalization interacted with the...
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This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the missing link between foreign aid and economic growth. The composition of aid plays a crucial role in determining the composition of government spending and, consequently, the magnitude of fungibility and its impact on growth....
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Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...
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We experimentally study the influence of local information conditions on elite capture and social exclusion in …
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Economists recommend to partly redistribute gains to losers from a structural reform, which in many cases may be … required for making the reform politically viable. However, taxation is distortionary. Then, it is unclear that compensatory … transfers can support a Pareto-improving reform. This paper provides sufficient conditions for this to occur, despite tax …
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deregulation reform are relatively small due to the small size of the professional services in Germany.Policy reforms i) and ii …This paper provides a quantitative evaluation of the macroeconomic, distributional, and fiscal effects of three reform … three reforms have positive short-run and long-run effects on employment, wages, and output. The quantitative effects of the …
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How does the relationship between earnings and schooling change with the introduction of comprehensive economic reform … the European Union). Moreover, our results identify winners and losers from reform. Winners were the college and … reform losers were those in construction and agriculture, those who attained only primary or vocational education (who …
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unemployed declined after the reform. These patterns suggest that the reform of unemployment benefits may be one of the reasons …
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macroeconomic conditions as facilitating structural reforms outweighs countervailing effects in the sense of lower reform pressure …This paper examines the contemporaneous relationship between the exchange rate regime and structural economic reforms … for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether structural reforms are complements or …
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