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How Relevant Is Infrastructure to Growth in East Asia?
Seethepalli, Kalpana; Bramati, Maria Caterina; Veredas, … - 2012
This paper seeks to shed some light on the extent to which infrastructure sub-sectors - energy, telecommunications, water supply, sanitation, and transport - contributed to growth in East Asia during 1985-2004. It also attempts to provide additional insights on whether the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552383
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How do governments become great? : ten cases, two competing explanations, one large research agenda
Andrews, Matt - 2013
Governments can play great roles in their countries, regions, and cities; facilitating or leading the resolution of festering problems and opening new pathways for progress. Examples are more numerous than one might imagine and raise an important question: 'how do governments become great?'....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128322
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A model to explain the impact of government revenue on the quality of governance and the SDGs
Hall, Stephen G.; O’Hare, Bernadette Ann-Marie - 2022
This paper empirically investigates the link between the level of government revenue per capita and six indicators of quality of governance in an unbalanced panel data set consisting of all countries in the world (217) using data from 1980 to 2020. It uses single-equation GMM techniques and a...
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MTEFs and Fiscal Performance : Panel Data Evidence
Grigoli, Francesco; Mills, Zachary; Verhoeven, Marijn - 2013
In the last two decades more than 120 countries have adopted a version of a Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF). These are budget institutions whose rationale it is to enable the central government to make credible multi-year fiscal commitments. This paper analyzes a newly-collected dataset...
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Utility-consistent Poverty in Madagascar, 2001 - 10 : snapshots in the presence of multiple economy-wide shocks
Stifel, David; Razafimanantena, Tiaray; Rakotomanana, Faly - 2014
We use Arndt and Simler's (2010) utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in Madagascar in 2001, 2005 and 2010. Because two major political crises occurred between the survey periods, the snapshots of national poverty rising from 56.3 per cent in 2001 to 59.6...
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Incomes, inequality, and poverty in Kenya : a long-term perspective
Bigsten, Arne; Manda, Damiano Kulundu; Mwabu, Germano M.; … - 2014
This paper seeks to measure and explain changes in incomes, inequality, and poverty in Kenya. It starts from a very …
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The African lions : Kenya country case study
Kimenyi, Mwangi S.; Mwega, Francis M.; Ndung'u, Njuguna S. - 2015
This paper mainly analyses the drivers of economic growth in Kenya and the linkages to the labour market dynamics, with … that Kenya, as the ninth largest economy in Africa and the fourth largest in sub-Saharan Africa and with a locational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411141
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Kenya's Quest for Growth Stabilization and Reforms--But Political Stability?
Bandiera, Luca; Kumar, Praveen; Pinto, Brian - 2012
Kenya has long had a reputation of being politically risky, manifested in corruption, uncertainty about policies, and … the importance of political connections in doing business. Kenya began its economic liberalization in 1993. Reform picked …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552474
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The determinants of domestic saving in Kenya
Musamali, Rodgers; Mutia, Cecilia; Ngugi, Rose W. - 2022
The savings-growth nexus is widely acknowledged, both in policy and in the literature. But Kenya's numerous policy … domestic saving in Kenya, exploiting fintech as an alternative channel for savings mobilization, and drawing lessons from the … recommend the following interventions to grow savings in Kenya: creating decent employment opportunities to enhance income …
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Understanding inequality and its evolution in Kenya : the contribution of the UNU-WIDER World Income Inequality Database initiative
Manda, Damiano Kulundu; Mwabu, Germano M.; Oleche, … - 2023
well the WIID's standardized inequality measures relate to measures of per capita income inequality in Kenya due to lack of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014335999