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Aid and Growth : What Does the Cross-Country Evidence Really Show?
Rajan, Raghuram G. - 2005
We examine the effects of aid on growth--in cross-sectional and panel data--after correcting for the bias that aid typically goes to poorer countries, or to countries after poor performance. Even after thiscorrection, we find little robust evidence of a positive (or negative) relationship...
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Politics and the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid
Boone, Peter David - 1995
Critics of foreign aid programs have long argued that poverty reflects government failure. In this paper I analyze the effectiveness of foreign aid programs to gain insights into political regimes in aid recipient countries. My analytical framework shows how three stylized political/economic...
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International Trade and Child Labor : Cross-Country Evidence
Edmonds, Eric - 2004
We explore the relationship between greater exposure to trade (as measured by openness) and child labor in a cross country setting. Our methodology accounts for the fact that trade flows are endogenous to child labor (and labor standards more generally) by examining the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468377
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What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States
Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2016
Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare …-sectional relationship between area-level skills and both earnings and area-level growth are also stronger in the developing world than in … the U.S. The forces that drive urban success seem similar in the rich and poor world, even if limited migration and …
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Is the U.S. Losing Its Preeminence in Higher Education?
Adams, James D. - 2009
The expansion of U.S. universities after World War II gained from the arrival of immigrant scientists and graduate … convergence in world science and engineering and a falling U.S. share. But the slowdown of U.S. publication rates in the late 1990 …
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Differences in Governance Practices between U.S. and Foreign Firms : Measurement, Causes, and Consequences
Aggarwal, Reena - 2007
Using an index which increases as a firm adopts more governance attributes, we find that 12.7% of foreign firms have a higher index than matching U.S. firms. The best predictor for whether a foreign firm adopts more governance attributes than a comparable U.S. firm is whether the firm comes from...
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The U.S. Current Account Deficit : Gradual Correction or Abrupt Adjustment?
Edwards, Sebastian - 2006
In this paper I use a large multi-country data set to analyze the determinants of abrupt and large "current account reversals." The results from a variance-component probit model indicate that the probability of experiencing a major current account reversal is positively affected by larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466540
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Why is Growth better in the United States than in other Industrial Countries
Feldstein, Martin S. - 2017
Although the official statistics imply that the rate of growth of real GDP in the United States has declined in recent years, it has still been substantially higher than the real growth rates in Europe and the other industrial countries, leading to higher real per capita incomes. This paper...
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Wellbeing Rankings
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Combining data on around four million respondents from the Gallup World Poll and the US Daily Tracker Poll we rank 164 … reported in the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index …
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Author Country of Origin and Attention on Open Science Platforms : Evidence from COVID-19 Preprints
Fry, Caroline; MacGarvie, Megan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
in demand for new research and a corresponding increase in the use of preprint platforms around the world. We find that ….S. institutions receive more attention, than preprints with authors from the rest of the world. In an exploration of potential …
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