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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...
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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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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 …
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This paper measures the economic impact of climate on crops in Kenya. The analysis is based on cross-sectional climate … these, and also constraints on adaptation mechanisms. The results suggest that farmers in Kenya are aware of short …
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. Three projects are considered - in India, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. The results are still tentative in terms of both …
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. The paper illustrates the decomposition using data for Morocco and Vietnam, and the results offer some surprising insights …
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By international standards, and given its relatively low per capita income, Vietnam has achieved substantial reductions … inequalities in child survival are evident in Vietnam-a change from the early 1990s when none were apparent. The authors develop … progress among the poor will jeopardize Vietnam's chances of achieving the international development goals for child mortality …
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Vietnam grew rapidly in the 1990s, and yet by many measures it has poor economic institutions. Dollar seeks to explain … this apparent anomaly. Between the 1980s and 1990s Vietnam carried out significant economic reforms, notably stabilization …. Relating these changes to the empirical growth literature, the author finds that Vietnam's growth acceleration is about what …
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This paper discusses possible macroeconomic implications for low-income countries of increased revenue inflows that may follow from implementing certain global greenhouse gas mitigation policies. Such revenue sources include revenue from emissions offset mechanisms, direct investments, and...
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This paper provides an historical overview of both the evolution of the economic performance of the developing world and the evolution of economic thought on development policy. The 20th century was broadly characterized by divergence between high-income countries and the developing world, with...
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