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External Capital Structures and Oil Price Volatility

Burger, John D. - 2010

oil price shocks. We study two Caribbean economies highly vulnerable to oil price shocks, an oil-importer (Jamaica) and an …

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Institutions vs. Policies : A Tale of Two Islands

Henry, Peter Blair - 2010

for explaining differences in their subsequent economic development. Barbados and Jamaica provide a striking counter … 1960 to 2002, Barbados' GDP per capita grew roughly three times as fast as Jamaica's. Consequently, the income gap between … Barbados and Jamaica is now almost five times larger than at the time of independence. Since their property rights and legal …

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Labor Market Returns to Early Childhood Stimulation : A 20-Year Followup to an Experimental Intervention in Jamaica

Gertler, Paul J. - 2013

We find large effects on the earnings of participants from a randomized intervention that gave psychosocial stimulation to stunted Jamaican toddlers living in poverty. The intervention consisted of one-hour weekly visits from community Jamaican health workers over a 2-year period that taught...

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The Social Implications of Sugar : Living Costs, Real Incomes and Inequality in Jamaica C1774

Burnard, Trevor G. - 2017

wealth Jamaica was the most unequal place in the pre-modern world. Furthermore, all of these characteristics applied to the …

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The Transition Economies after Ten Years

Fischer, Stanley; Sahay, Ratna - 2010

While output declined in virtually all transition economies in the initial years, the speed and extent of the recovery that followed has varied widely across these countries. The contrast between the more and less successful transitions, the latter largely in the former Soviet Union, raises many...

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The Economy of Israel

Fischer, Stanley - 2004

The paper opens with a description of the salient features of the Israeli economy. These consist of a large government sector(the government budget has absorbed more than 80% of GNP in some recent years); high levels of defense spending; a large government budget deficit; a large current account...

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The Emergence of Weak, Despotic and Inclusive States

Acemoglu, Daron - 2017

Societies under similar geographic and economic conditions and subject to similar external influences nonetheless develop very different types of states. At one extreme are weak states with little capacity and ability to regulate economic or social relations. At the other are despotic states...

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How Modern Dictators Survive : An Informational Theory of the New Authoritarianism

Guriev, Sergei - 2015

We develop an informational theory of dictatorship. Dictators survive not because of their use of force or ideology but because they convince the public—rightly or wrongly—that they are competent. Citizens do not observe the dictator's type but infer it from signals inherent in their living...

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Israel and the 1990-2015 Global Developments : Riding with the Global Flows and Weathering the Storms

Razin, Assaf - 2016

The global economy has been buffeted by several unprecedented economic events during the past 35 years. We survey the impact of these events on Israel's development, institutions, and economic policies. Israel had a remarkable development during this time, from a low income high-inflation...

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When Labor's Lost : Health, Family Life, Incarceration, and Education in a Time of Declining Economic Opportunity for Low-Skilled Men

Coile, Courtney - 2019

The economic progress of U.S. men has stagnated in recent decades, with declining labor force participation and weak growth in real earnings, particularly for less educated and non-white men. In this paper, we illuminate the broader context in which prime-age men are experiencing economic...

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