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Calder??n, C??sar; Loayza, Norman; Schmidt-Hebbel, Klaus - 2012

sample of countries. Controlling for domestic conditions, the paper examines the growth and volatility effects of outcome … of nonlinearities by allowing the growth and volatility effects of openness to vary with the general level of economic … point toward strong non-monotonic effects of openness and external shocks on growth and volatility. Moreover, all in all …

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Cote d'Ivoire : Volatility, Shocks and Growth

Bogetic, Zeljko; Espina, Carlos; Noer, John - 2012

coffee production and output. These patterns have become more pronounced since the 1970s as volatility increased. This paper … of volatility in the Cote d'Ivoire. The terms of trade and real exchange rate are also sources of volatility for growth …

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Aid, Growth, and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics

Devarajan, Shantayanan; Go, Delfin S.; Page, John - 2012

assumption is that aid should be predictable for intertemporal smoothing to take place. If aid volatility forces recipients to be …

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Does Aid Help Improve Economic Institutions?

Coviello, Decio; Islam, Roumeen - 2012

Aid is expected to promote better living standards by raising investment and growth. But aid may also affect institutions directly. In theory, these effects may or may not work in the same direction as those on investment. The authors examine the effect of aid on economic institutions and find...

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Poverty Traps, Aid, and Growth

Kraay, Aart; Raddatz, Claudio - 2012

The authors examine the empirical evidence in support of the poverty trap view of underdevelopment. They calibrate simple aggregate growth models in which poverty traps can arise due to either low saving or low technology at low levels of development. They then use these models to assess the...

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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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The Structural Determinants of External Vulnerability

Loayza, Norman V.; Raddatz, Claudio - 2012

The authors examine empirically how domestic structural characteristics related to openness and product- and factor-market flexibility influence the impact that terms-of-trade shocks can have on aggregate output. For this purpose, they apply an econometric methodology based on semi-structural...

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What Happens When a Country Does Not Adjust to Terms of Trade Shocks? The Case of Oil-Rich Gabon

Zafar, Ali - 2013

Gabon is currently one of the richest countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, having a GDP per capita of close to $4,000, and is characterized by a stable political climate and rich forestry and mineral resources, as well as a small population. Oil is the key economic sector, accounting for half of GDP...

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Cote d???Ivoire : From Success to Failure - A Story of Growth, Specialization, and the Terms of Trade

Bogetic, Zeljko; Noer, John; Espina, Carlos - 2012

Real GDP per capita and capital stock in Cote d'Ivoire grew strongly from 1960 to 1979, but have declined ever since, for twenty-five years. As a result, the country has traveled a full circle from economic success to failure in little more than a generation. What are the long-term factors...

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The Elimination of Madagascar???s Vanilla Marketing Board, Ten Years On

Cadot, Olivier; Dutoit, Laure; de Melo, Jaime - 2012

spectacularly narrowed down, but this effect is dwarfed by that of world-price volatility. A counterfactual analysis based on a …

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