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Key Drivers of PPPs in Electricity Generation in Developing Countries : Cross-Country Evidence of Switching between PPP Investment in Fossil Fuel and Renewable-Based Generation

Vagliasindi, Maria - 2012

This paper presents new global evidence on the key determinants of public-private partnership investment in electricity generated by fossil fuels and renewable energy based on a panel data analysis for 105 developing countries over a period of 16 years from 1993 to 2008. It aims to identify the...

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Aid, Growth, and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics

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

Devarajan, Go, Page, Robinson, and Thierfelder argued that if aid is about the future and recipients are able to plan consumption and investment decisions optimally over time, then the potential problem of an aid-induced appreciation of the real exchange rate (Dutch disease) does not occur. In...

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Growth is Good for the Poor

Dollar, David; Kraay, Aart - 2001

When average income rises, the average incomes of the poorest fifth of society rise proportionately. This is a consequence of the strong empirical regularity that the share of income accruing to the bottom quintile does not vary systematically with average income. The authors document this...

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Real Exchange Rate Uncertainty and Private Investment in Developing Countries

S??rven, Luis - 2013

The author examines empirically the link between real exchange rate uncertainty and private investment in developing countries using a large cross country-time series data set. He builds a GARCH-based measure of real exchange rate volatility and finds that it has a strong negative impact on...

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Exchange Rate Flexibility and the Effect of Remittances on Economic Growth

Lartey, Emmanuel - 2016

This paper studies the question of whether exchange rate policy affects the impact of remittances on economic growth in recipient countries. The paper utilizes a comprehensive data set that comprises annual observations for 135 developing and transition countries, spanning 1970-2007. The data...

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Fear of Appreciation

Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Sturzenegger, Federico - 2012

exchange rates appear to induce higher growth, but that the effect, rather than through import substitution or export booms as …

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Depreciations without Exports? : Global Value Chains and the Exchange Rate Elasticity of Exports

Ahmed, Swarnali; Appendino, Maximiliano; Ruta, Michele - 2015

46 countries over the period 1996-2012, and first finds evidence that the elasticity of manufacturing export volumes to …

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The Real Exchange Rate and Export Growth : Are Services Different?

Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - 2014

of export volumes as well as export surges, that is, the periods of rapid sustained export growth. It asks whether the … determinants of export growth rates and export surges differ between merchandise, traditional services, and modern services and … whether developing countries are different. It confirm the importance of the real exchange rate for export growth. The paper …

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The Role of Exchange Rate and Non-Exchange Rate Related Factors in Polish Firms' Export Performance

Albinowski, Maciej; Hagemejer, Jan; Lovo, Stefania; … - 2016

This paper analyzes the export performance of Polish manufacturing firms. It focuses on the extensive and intensive … margins of exports, on the decision to enter export markets and the intensity of exports, given participation, examining price … and non-price determinants of export performance. The analysis relies on two different but complementary sources of data …

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Importing, Exporting and Innovation in Developing Countries

Seker, Murat - 2009

export premium without controlling for import status is likely to overestimate the actual value by capturing the import …

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