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Aggregate Income Shocks and Infant Mortality in the Developing World
Baird, Sarah; Friedman, Jed; Schady, Norbert - 2012
the relationship between changes in per capita GDP and infant mortality. The authors show that there is a strong, negative … association between changes in per capita GDP and infant mortality- in a first-differenced specification the implied elasticity of … infant mortality with respect to per capita GDP is approximately -0.56. In addition to this central result, two findings are …
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Risk Sharing Opportunities and Macroeconomic Factors in Latin American and Caribbean Countries : A Consumption Insurance Assessment
Ventura, Luigi - 2012
This paper evaluates the degree of consumption insurance enjoyed by Latin American and Caribbean countries, with respect to various reference areas, by estimating a parameter expressing the sensitivity of a country's consumption growth to a measure of idiosyncratic shocks to income. The paper...
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How Relevant Is Infrastructure to Growth in East Asia?
Seethepalli, Kalpana; Bramati, Maria Caterina; Veredas, … - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552383
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552861
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Foreign Direct Investment, Regulations, and Growth
Busse, Matthias; Groizard, Jos?? Luis - 2012
This paper explores the linkage between income growth rates and foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. So far the evidence is rather mixed, as no robust relationship between FDI and income growth has been established. The authors argue that countries need a sound business environment in the...
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The Relative Richness of the Poor? Natural Resources, Human Capital and Economic Growth
Bravo-Ortega, Claudio; de Gregorio, Jos?? - 2012
Are natural resources a blessing or a curse? The authors present a model in which natural resources have a positive effect on the level of income and a negative effect on its growth rate. The positive and permanent effect on income implies a welfare gain. There is a growth effect stemming from a...
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Measuring Quarterly Economic Growth from Outer Space
Beyer, Robert C.M; Hu, Yingyao; Yao, Jiaxiong - 2022
This paper presents a novel framework to estimate the elasticity between nighttime lights and quarterly economic activity. The relationship is identified by accounting for varying degrees of measurement errors in nighttime light data across countries. The elasticity is 1.55 for emerging markets...
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Growth, Inequality, and Simulated Poverty Paths for Tanzania, 1992-2002
Demombynes, Gabriel; Hoogeveen, Johannes G. - 2013
Although Tanzania experienced relatively rapid growth in per capita GDP in the 1995 2001 period, household budget …
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Economic Development As Opportunity Equalization
Roemer, John E. - 2013
distribution of economic resources. The ubiquitous measure of GDP per capita reflects a utilitarian conception of justice, where …
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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 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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