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Rodrik, Dani - 2003

This is an attempt to derive broad, strategic lessons from the diverse experience with economic growth in last fifty years. The paper revolves around two key arguments. One is that neoclassical economic analysis is a lot more flexible than its practitioners in the policy domain have generally...

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Can the West Save Africa?

Easterly, William - 2008

In the new millennium, the Western aid effort towards Africa has surged due to writings by well-known economists, a … celebrity mass advocacy campaign, and decisions by Western leaders to make Africa a major foreign policy priority. This survey … contrasts the predominant "transformational" approach (West saves Africa) to occasional swings to a "marginal" approach (West …

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Trade Growth under the African Growth and Opportunity Act

Frazer, Garth - 2007

This paper explores whether one of the most important U.S. policies towards Africa of the past few decades achieved its …

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Financial Liberalization in Latin-America in the 1990s : A Reassessment

Aizenman, Joshua - 2005

This paper studies the experience of Latin-America [LATAM] with financial liberalization in the 1990s. The rush towards financial liberalizations in the early 1990s was associated with expectations that external financing would alleviate the scarcity of saving in LATAM, thereby increasing...

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AGOA Rules : The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Special Fabric Provisions

Edwards, Lawrence - 2010

But the disappointments can also be attributed to the preferences because they discouraged additional value-addition in assembly and stimulated the use of expensive fabrics that were unlikely to be produced locally. When the MFA was removed, constrained countries such as China moved strongly...

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The Determinants of Food Aid Provisions to Africa and the Developing World

Nunn, Nathan - 2010

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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Return on Returns : Building Scientific Capacity in AIDS Endemic Countries

Fry, Caroline; Ganguli, Ina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We estimate spillovers from public funding for health research in the context of the NIH's Fogarty International Center's AIDS International Training and Research Program, which aims to strengthen scientific capacity in AIDS endemic countries by providing African researchers with training...

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Policy Uncertainty, Persistence and Growth

Aizenman, Joshua - 1991

This paper explores links between policy uncertainty and growth. It provides evidence on the correlation between policy uncertainty and per capita real GDP for 46 developing countries over the 1970-85 period. Cross-section regressions on growth suggest that after accounting for standard...

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Does the AIDS Epidemic Really Threaten Economic Growth?

Bloom, David E. - 1995

This study examines the claim that the AIDS epidemic will slow the pace of economic growth. We do this by examining the association, across fifty-one developing and industrial countries for which we were able to assemble data, between changes in the prevalence of AIDS and the rate of growth of...

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What Undermines Aid's Impact on Growth?

Rajan, Raghuram G. - 2005

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...

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