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A Critical Assessment of Japan’s Foreign Aid Sanctions Policy: Case Studies of Latin American Countries

Furuoka, Fumitaka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

guidelines is expected to produce a certain effect on Japan’s foreign aid policy. This paper examines Japan’s aid sanctions … policy toward Latin American countries as a case study. Since new ODA guidelines were introduced, Japan implemented three … introduced twice, i.e. in Haiti and Guatemala. The findings indicate that Japan apparently pledges to promote human rights and …

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Las remesas en América Latina, ¿amenaza u oportunidad?

Martin-Mayoral, Fernando; Proaño, Maria Belén - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of remittances on Latin America`s economic growth thorough 1976-2007 controlling the potential endogeneity of the regressors through system GMM estimators for dynamic data panel model. The main conclusion is that remittances had a negative and...

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The contribution of railways to economic growth in Latin America before 1914: a growth accounting approach

Herranz-Loncan, Alfonso - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Railways are usually considered as one of the most important innovations that fostered the transition of Latin America to economic growth before 1914. The social saving estimates that are available for several Latin American countries seem to confirm that view. However, the interpretation of the...

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Testing for Stochastic and Beta-convergence in Latin American Countries

Escobari, Diego - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper uses time-series data from nineteen Latin American countries and the U.S. to test for income convergence using two existing definitions of convergence and a new testable definition of β-convergence. Only Dominican Republic and Paraguay were found to pair-wise converge according to...

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The Influence of Religious Beliefs and Ethnic Diversity on the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Latin America and Muslim Countries

DelaCruz, Juan J - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

In the absence of substantial differences in the growth rates of per capita GDP across countries, what are the factors that explain the rapid spread of the HIV infection within a nation? This is an empirical question that needs to be explained. In order to elucidate the correlation between HIV...

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Growth effects of foreign direct investment and economic policy reforms in Latin America

Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Both theoretical and empirical literature has identified several channels through which FDI influence economic growth in Latin America. This study however examines the impact on economic output growth using aggregate production function augmented with FDI inflows, policy reforms and the...

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Convergence Clubs determined by Economic History in Latin America

Quiroga, Barrientos; Andrea, Paola - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The concept of club convergence has been widely used in empirical analysis to group countries in clubs with similar development paths. However, there is no unified agreement on how to identify the clubs in the first place. In this paper, I argue that economic history can guide us to identify...

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Computable General Equilibrium Simulations of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Agreement

Willenbockel, Dirk - 2019

Building upon earlier work by Willenbockel (2013; MPRA Paper No.51501), this study provides an extended ex-ante computable general equilibrium (CGE) assessment of the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement between the member states of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the East African...

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State Control and the Effects of Foreign Relations on Bilateral Trade

Davis, Christina - 2016

Can governments still use trade to reward and punish partner countries? While WTO rules and the pressures of globalization restrict states' capacity to manipulate trade policies, politicization of trade is likely to occur where governments intervene in markets. We examine state ownership of...

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Eurasian Integration and Its Institutions : Possible Contributions to Security in Eurasia

Vinokurov, Evgeny; Libman, Alexander - 2017

The authors turn to the large family of institutions that came into existence in post-Soviet Eurasia (and, in some ways, beyond it) over the last two decades. The researchers review their current state, agenda, real and perceived mandate, and their respective achievements and constraints. The...

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