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This paper investigates the relationship between political instability and per capita GDP growth in a sample of 113 countries for the period 1950-1982. We define ?political instability? as the propensity of a government collapse, and we estimate a model in which political instability and...
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This paper successfully tests on a sample of 70 countries for the period 1960-85 the following hypotheses. Income inequality, by fueling social discontent, increases socio-political instability. The latter, by creating uncertainty in the politico-economic environment, reduces investment. As a...
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The importance of seignorage relative to other sources of government revenue differs markedly across countries. The main theoretical implication of this paper is that countries with more unstable and polarized political systems rely more heavily on seignorage. This result is obtained within the...
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human capital to China's economic growth. The results indicate that human capital plays a much more important role in China … enrollment in China increased nearly fivefold between 1997 and 2007) while growth rates of GDP are little changed over the period … that there have been decreased in the efficiency of inputs usage in China or worsened misallocation of physical and human …
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spectacular advances of the economies of China, India, and Southeast Asia. Section 1 reviews the debate over the sources of … the new recognition among Western economists that the sustained, very rapid growth in China and Southeast Asia was …
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competitive devaluations. The sheer size of China, and its lower sterilization costs suggests that China may be the winner of a … and precautionary motives in the context of China may be challenged by a version of the quot;peso problem.quot; Hoarding …
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. While the substantial presence of FIEs has contributed greatly to the recent export-led growth of China, an important …
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China during the four decades between 2000 and 2040. The first concerns the source of the factors which make it likely that … China will continue to grow at a high rate for another generation. The paper argues that this growth will be the result of …
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We study theoretically and empirically whether natural resource windfalls affect political regimes. We document the following regularities. Natural resource windfalls have no effect on the political system when they occur in democracies. However, windfalls have significant political consequences...
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There is a paucity of facts about the effects of the recent military quot;Surgequot; on conditions in Iraq and whether it is paving the way for a stable Iraq. Selective, anecdotal and incomplete analyses abound. Policy makers and defense planners must decide which measures of success or failure...
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