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Can Foreign Lobbying Enhance Development? The Case of Tourism in the Caribbean
Gawande, Kishore; Maloney, William; Montes Rojas, Gabriel V. - 2012
and private sector principals frequently and intensively use this institutional channel to lobby on trade and tourism … of Caribbean tourism and it is the first paper to examine the potential for using foreign lobbying as a vehicle for …
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Travel Channel Meets Discovery Channel or How Tourism Can Encourage Better Export Performance and Diversification in Nepal
Reis, Jos?? Guilherme; Varela, Gonzalo - 2014
that tourism can help alleviate some of these costs by providing a relatively inexpensive platform for cost-discovery and …-level data on world and Nepal's exports (both for goods that are related and unrelated to tourism) with Nepalese data on tourist … inflows and expenditures and macro indicators on relative prices. For tourism-related goods, the analysis reveals a positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560777
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Tourism Sector in Panama : Regional Economic Impacts and the Potential to Benefit the Poor
Klytchnikova, Irina; Dorosh, Paul - 2013
Tourism is one of Latin America's fastest growing industries but the impact of tourism on the poor and the effects on … lagging regions are under debate. Many studies have evaluated the growth impacts of the tourism sector but few have analyzed … the impact of tourism on the economy and poverty at the subnational level in developing countries. As a country marked by …
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Advanced-Country Policies and Emerging-Market Currencies
Ikeda, Yuki; Medvedev, Denis; Rama, Martin - 2015
The global financial crisis and its aftermath have triggered extraordinary policy responses in advanced countries. The impacts of these policy responses—from asset price bubbles to currency depreciations—have often been felt in the developing world. As tapering talk evolves into actual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012564370
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Good Countries or Good Projects?
Bulman, David; Kolkma, Walter; Kraay, Aart - 2015
This paper examines the micro and macro correlates of aid project outcomes in a sample of 3,821 World Bank projects and 1,342 Asian Development Bank projects. Project outcomes vary much more within countries than between countries: country-level characteristics explain only 10–25 percent of...
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Monitoring Financial Stability in Developing and Emerging Economies
Dijkman, Miquel - 2015
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, interest in systemic risk has surged among academics and policy makers. The mitigation of systemic risk is now widely accepted as the fundamental underlying concept for the design of the post-crisis regulatory agenda. Effective mitigation requires...
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Exploring Carbon Pricing in Developing Countries : A Macroeconomic Analysis in Ethiopia
Benitez, Pablo; Medhin, Haileselassie; Tamru, Seneshaw; … - 2019
This study uses a computable general equilibrium model to analyze various policy scenarios for a carbon tax on greenhouse gas emissions from petroleum fuels and kerosene in Ethiopia. The carbon tax starts at $5 per ton of carbon dioxide in 2018 and rises to $30 per ton in 2030. Different...
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Reserve Requirements in the Brave New Macroprudential World
Cordella, Tito; Federico, Pablo; Vegh, Carlos; Vuletin, … - 2014
Using a new, large data set on quarterly reserve requirements for the period 1970-2011, this paper provides new evidence on the use of reserve requirements as a countercyclical macroprudential tool in developing countries. The appeal of reserve requirements lies in the pro-cyclical behavior of...
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Are Innovating Firms Victims or Perpetrators? Tax Evasion, Bribe Payments, and the Role of External Finance in Developing Countries
Ayyagari, Meghana; Demirg????-Kunt, Asli; Maksimovic, … - 2012
This paper investigates corruption and tax evasion and their firm-level determinants across 25,000 firms in 57 countries, a large fraction of which are small and medium enterprises in developing countries. Firms that pay more bribes also evade more taxes. Corruption acts as a tax on innovation,...
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Is There a Metropolitan Bias? The Inverse Relationship between Poverty and City Size in Selected Developing Countries
Ferre, Celine; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2012
This paper provides evidence from eight developing countries of an inverse relationship between poverty and city size. Poverty is both more widespread and deeper in very small and small towns than in large or very large cities. This basic pattern is generally robust to choice of poverty line....
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