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Subsidies to Industry and the Environment
Kelly, David L. - 2010
productive use, the economy wide marginal product of emissions falls with an increase in any subsidy, tending to decrease …
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Detection and Impact of Industrial Subsidies : The Case of World Shipbuilding
Kalouptsidi, Myrto - 2014
This paper provides a model-based empirical strategy to, (i) detect the presence and gauge the magnitude of government subsidies and (ii) quantify their impact on production reallocation across countries, industry prices, costs and consumer surplus. I construct and estimate an industry model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054035
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Growth Accounting with Misallocation : Or, Doing Less with More in Singapore
Fernald, John G. - 2010
We derive aggregate growth-accounting implications for a two-sector economy with heterogeneous capital subsidies and monopoly power. In this economy, measures of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in terms of quantities (the primal) and real factor prices (the dual) can diverge from each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142554
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Does Development Aid Undermine Political Accountability? Leader and Constituent Responses to a Large-Scale Intervention
Guiteras, Raymond P. - 2015
Bangladesh, where 346 communities consisting of 16,600 households were randomly assigned to control, information or subsidy … treatments to encourage investments in improved sanitation. In one intervention where the leaders' role in program allocation was … attribute credit to their local leader for a randomly assigned program. In contrast, in another lottery where subsidy assignment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017937
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Productivity Volatility and the Misallocation of Resources in Developing Economies
Collard-Wexler, Allan - 2011
We investigate the role of dynamic production inputs and their associated adjustment costs in shaping the dispersion of total factor productivity (TFP) and static measures of capital misallocation within a country. Using data on 5,010 establishments in 33 developing countries from the World...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122876
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The Determinants of Food Aid Provisions to Africa and the Developing World
Nunn, Nathan - 2014
We examine the supply-side and demand-side determinants of global bilateral food aid shipments between 1971 and 2008. First, we find that domestic food production in developing countries is negatively correlated with subsequent food aid receipts, suggesting that food aid receipt is partly driven...
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What Undermines Aid's Impact on Growth?
Rajan, Raghuram G. - 2006
We examine one of the most important and intriguing puzzles in economics: why it is so hard to find a robust effect of aid on the long-term growth of poor countries, even those with good policies. We look for a possible offset to the beneficial effects of aid, using a methodology that exploits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783659
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What Works in Fighting Diarrheal Diseases in Developing Countries? A Critical Review
Zwane, Alix Peterson - 2010
The Millennium Development Goals call for reducing by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water. This goal was adopted in large part because clean water was seen as critical to fighting diarrheal disease, which kills 2 million children annually. There is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760296
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Making Progress on Foreign Aid
Qian, Nancy - 2014
Foreign aid is one of the most important policy tools that rich countries use for helping poor countries to improve population well-being and facilitate economic and institutional development. The empirical evidence on its benefits is mixed and has generated much controversy. This paper presents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048582
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The Effect of Aid on Growth : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Galiani, Sebastian - 2016
The literature on aid and growth has not found a convincing instrumental variable to identify the causal effects of aid. This paper exploits an instrumental variable based on the fact that since 1987, eligibility for aid from the International Development Association (IDA) has been based partly...
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