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Aid, Policies, and Growth : Revisiting the Evidence
Burnside, Craig; Dollar, David - 2013
The authors revisit the relationship between aid and growth using a new data set focusing on the 1990s. The evidence supports the view that the impact of aid depends on the quality of state institutions and policies. The authors use an overall measure of institutions and policies popular in the...
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Investment Climate and International Integration
Dollar, David; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Mengistae, Taye - 2013
Drawing on recently completed firm-level surveys in Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Honduras, India, Nicaragua, Pakistan, and Peru, this paper investigates the relationship between investment climate and international integration. These standardized surveys of large, random samples of firms in common...
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Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality Since 1980
Dollar, David - 2013
developing world economy grew at more than 3.5 percent per capita in the 1990s. Trend #2: The number of poor people in the world … developing world population living on less than $1 per day was cut in half since 1981. Trend #3: Global inequality (among … citizens of the world) has declined - modestly -- reversing a 200-year-old trend toward higher inequality. Trend #4: There is …
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