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Fiscal Policy, Public Expenditure Composition, and Growth : Theory and Empirics
Semmler, Willi; Greiner, Alfred; Diallo, Bobo - 2012
This paper responds to the development policy debate involving the World Bank and the IMF on the use of fiscal policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552854
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Escaping the Capability Trap : Turning "Small" Development into "Big" Development
Campos, J. Edgardo; Randrianarivelo, Benjamina; Winning, Kay - 2014
The international development community has been grappling with the challenges of implementing development programs and, consequently, with the design of practical approaches to attaining program objectives. This paper contributes to the emerging discussion on addressing the implementation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560825
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In Search of the Missing Resource Curse
Lederman, Daniel; Maloney, William F. - 2012
The debate over the curse of natural resources has haunted developing countries for decades if not centuries. A review of existing empirical evidence suggests that the curse remains elusive. The fragile negative effect of natural resources on economic growth might be due to international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552554
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Shifting Patterns of Economic Growth and Rethinking Development
Lin, Justin Yifu; Rosenblatt, David - 2012
This paper provides an historical overview of both the evolution of the economic performance of the developing world … between high-income countries and the developing world, with only a limited number (less than 10 percent of the economies in … the world) managing to progress out of lower or middle-income status to high-income status. The last decade witnessed a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552145
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How Might Climate Change Affect Economic Growth in Developing Countries? A Review of the Growth Literature with a Climate Lens
Lecocq, Franck; Shalizi, Zmarak - 2012
This paper reviews the empirical and theoretical literature on economic growth to examine how the four components of the climate change bill, namely mitigation, proactive (ex ante) adaptation, reactive (ex post) adaptation, and ultimate damages of climate change affect growth, especially in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552762
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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:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553684
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Finance and Economic Development : Policy Choices for Developing Countries
Demirg????-Kunt, Asl?? - 2012
-varies sharply around the world, with large differences among countries at similar levels of income. This paper argues that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553777
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Growth Trends in the Developing World : Country Forecasts and Determinants
Ianchovichina, Elena; Kacker, Pooja - 2012
these countries, representing major world regions and accounting for close to 80 percent of the developing world's GDP, they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554231
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Structural Change, Dualism and Economic Development : The Role of the Vulnerable Poor on Marginal Lands
Barbier, Edward B. - 2013
natural resources use in the rural economy matter in the overall dynamics of structural change. The concentration of the rural … poor on marginal lands is essentially a barometer of economy-wide development. As long as there are abundant marginal lands … in the economy. Moreover, the economy is vulnerable to the "Dutch disease" effects of a booming primary products sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559489
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Financial Development, Growth, and Poverty : How Close are the Links?
Patrick Honohan - 2013
The causal link between finance and growth is one of the most striking empirical macroeconomic relationships uncovered in the past decade. As this branch of the literature matures, the focus shifts from growth to other aspects of economic prosperity, and from financial depth to multidimensional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559640