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Economic Growth, Income Distribution, and Poverty in Poland During Transition

Paci, Pierella; Sasin, Martin J.; Verbeek, Jos - 2013

The authors attempt to analyze the linkages between macroeconomic policies and economic growth variables, their movement over time, and their impact on poverty in the case of Poland. Poland, a middle-income country, is of particular interest because its data sources allow for a relatively...

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Sequencing Fiscal Decentralization

Bahl, Roy; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge - 2012

While there is extensive knowledge about how to design fiscal decentralization policies, considerably less is … understood about how a decentralization program should be sequenced and implemented. Countries embarking on decentralization … often struggle with decisions about the essential components of decentralization, including the order of an introduction of …

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A Dynamic Model of Fiscal Decentralization and Public Debt Accumulation

Guo, Si; Pei, Yun; Xie, Leiyu - 2022

quantitatively how fiscal decentralization affects local and central government debt accumulation and spending. In the model, the … local and central debts are inefficiently high. Consistent with empirical evidence, when fiscal decentralization widens …

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The Effects of Infrastructure Development on Growth and Income Distribution

Calder??n, C??sar; Serv??n, Luis - 2013

The authors provide an empirical evaluation of the impact of infrastructure development on economic growth and income distribution using a large panel data set encompassing over 100 countries and spanning the years 1960-2000. The empirical strategy involves the estimation of simple equations for...

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Evaluating Recipes for Development Success

Dixit, Avinash - 2012

This paper provides a review of the contradictions and conflicts in the literature on economic governance and sketches an approach to use some of the conceptual and empirical findings from that literature for development policy. The literature offers conflicting conclusions on big questions:...

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Partially Awakened Giants : Uneven Growth in China and India

Chaudhuri, Shubham; Ravallion, Martin - 2012

The paper examines the ways in which recent economic growth has been uneven in China and India and what this has meant for inequality and poverty. Drawing on analyses based on existing household survey data and aggregate data from official sources, the authors show that growth has indeed been...

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Reform, Growth, and Poverty in Vietnam

Dollar, David - 2013

, the introduction of positive real interest rates, trade liberalization, and initial property rights reform in agriculture …

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Solow in Transition : Macro and Micro Determinants of Savings in Armenia

Coulibaly, Souleymane; Diaby, Mohamed - 2013

This paper analyzes and reconciles macro and micro evidence on savings and factors that affect savings, as well as possible policy implications. At the aggregate level, the main question is how savings are affected by growth and macroeconomic policies and variables (fiscal policy, exchange rate,...

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Finance and inequality : Theory and evidence

Demirg????-Kunt, Asli; Levine, Ross - 2012

This paper critically reviews the literature on finance and inequality, highlighting substantive gaps in the literature. Finance plays a crucial role in most theories of persistent inequality. Unsurprisingly, therefore, economic theory provides a rich set of predictions concerning both the...

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Where in the World are you? Assessing the Importance of Circumstance and Effort in a World of Different Mean Country Incomes and (Almost) No Migration

Milanovic, Branko - 2012

Suppose that all people in the world are allocated only two characteristics: country where they live and income class within that country. Assume further that there is no migration. This paper shows that 90 percent of variability in people's global income position (percentile in world income...

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