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This response document will briefly address concerns about the ethical, legal and methodological flaws with past research informing aspects of present PEPFAR program areas; concerns about adverse consequences of PEPFAR program areas; and concerns about the absence of oversight of the activities...
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This paper will attempt to provide a comprehensive answer to the complex issue of development in sub-Saharan Africa by identifying an FDI reliance-rejection paradox emanating from the incompatibility between colonial legacies and Structural Adjustment Programmes. Since the 1980s, international...
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representing Malawi in 2007 linked to household survey to examine how different trade policy reforms by Malawi and the rest of the … world would impact poverty in Malawi. The country’s recent agricultural growth history due to the Fertilizer Input Subsidy … policies could help fight poverty in Malawi, there are no substitute to development policies, and if undertaken simultaneously …
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economic growth in Zambia can be stimulated even in a moderately high inflation environment. Particularly, the causality …
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relationship between real gross domestic product growth and real exchange rate misalignment for Zimbabwe. After controlling for … exchange rate overvaluation was a key fundamental behind the post-2000 economic growth contraction in Zimbabwe. …
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In this paper we estimated the traditional cross-country growth model and corrected for model endogeneity bias and country-specific hetereogeneity effects. Using the System-IV Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) approach, we identified the key factors that determine GDP per capita growth rate in...
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Political scientists and economists increasingly agree that institutions may influence economic growth, but there is little general agreement on what institutions tend to produce what consequences. We apply public choice insights for a theoretical analysis that may be termed “Madisonian”:...
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In this paper, we made an attempt to understand the costs and benefits of democracy for economic growth in Pakistan by … analyzing the relationship between democracy and its various measures. Using instrumental variables and RALS (rth … uncertain relationship between democracy and fiscal policy variables like expenditures, revenues and deficit; whereas democracy …
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The recent empirical growth literature has proposed three underlying fundamental determinants of economic growth, namely, physical geography, economic integration, and institutional quality. This paper unpacks the final determinant into both political-economic institutions as well as the...
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There are two innovations in the paper as compared to the previous literature on democracy and growth. First, we … consider not only the level of democracy, but also changes in this level in the 1970s-1990s as measured by increments of … Freedom House political rights indices. Second, the distinction is made between democracy and law and order (order based on …
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