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The Struggle Towards Macroeconomic Stability : Analytical Essay

Razin, Assaf - 2019

This essay offers an economic-history perspective of the long struggle towards macroeconomic stability. The paper is a broad analytical overview of major exogenous shocks and shifts in macroeconomic policy and institutions in Israel since the 1977-1985 great inflation through the global...

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Place-Based Policies for Development

Duranton, Gilles - 2018

Many development policies, such as placement of infrastructure or local economic development schemes, are "place-based." Such policies are generally intended to stimulate private sector investment and economic growth in the treated place, and as such they are difficult to appraise and evaluate....

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Experimentation at Scale

Muralidharan, Karthik - 2017

This paper makes the case for greater use of randomized experiments "at scale." We review various critiques of experimental program evaluation in developing countries, and discuss how experimenting at scale along three specific dimensions - the size of the sampling frame, the number of units...

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Trade, Foreign Investment, and Industrial Policy for Developing Countries

Harrison, Ann - 2009

In this paper we explore the popular but controversial idea that developing countries benefit from abandoning policy neutrality vis-a-vis trade, FDI and resource allocation across industries. Are developing countries justified in imposing tariffs, subsidies, and tax breaks that imply distortions...

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FORTY YEARS OF LATIN AMERICA'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT : From the Alliance for Progress to the Washington Consensus

Edwards, Sebastian - 2009

In this paper I analyze the evolution of economic and social conditions in Latin America from the 1950s through the 1980s, when deep external crises erupted in country after country. The point of departure of our story is the political awakening of the region in the late 1950s and early 1960s...

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Is the Washington Consensus Dead? Growth, Openness, and the Great Liberalization, 1970s-2000s

Estevadeordal, Antoni - 2008

According to the Washington Consensus, developing countries? growth would benefit from a reduction in tariffs and other barriers to trade. But a backlash against this view now suggests that trade policies have little or no impact on growth. If "getting policies right" is wrong or infeasible,...

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Contraception as Development? New Evidence from Family Planning in Colombia

Miller, Grant - 2005

There has been considerable debate in the last decade about whether or not family planning programs in developing countries reduce fertility or improve socio-economic outcomes. Despite suggestive associations, disagreement persists because the availability and use of modern contraceptives are...

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Cape Verde and Mozambique as Development Successes in West and Southern Africa

de Macedo, Jorge Braga - 2010

Southern Africa. We then assess to what extent these combinations apply to both countries using an empirical analysis. We find … that trade openness drives convergence and export diversification in Western Africa (which is becoming more diversified …) while convergence is instead driven by economic and political freedoms in Southern Africa (which is becoming more …

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From Proof of Concept to Scalable Policies : Challenges and Solutions, with an Application

Banerjee, Abhijit - 2016

The promise of randomized controlled trials is that evidence gathered through the evaluation of a specific program helps us--possibly after several rounds of fine-tuning and multiple replications in different contexts--to inform policy. However, critics have pointed out that a potential...

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Detecting Fraud in Development Aid

Ensminger, Jean Evelyn; Leder-Luis, Jetson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

When organizations have limited accountability, antifraud measures, including auditing, often face barriers due to institutional resistance and practical difficulties on the ground. This is especially true in development aid, where aid organizations face incentives to suppress information about...

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