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Natural resources and reforms
Amin, Mohammad; Djankov, Simeon - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
The authors use a sample of 133 countries to investigate the link between the abundance of natural resources and micro-economic reforms. Previous studies suggest that natural resource abundance gives rise to governments that are less accountable to the public and states that are oligarchic, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005080009
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The time cost of documents to trade
Amin, Mohammad - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011
This paper analyzes the relationship between the number of documents required to export and import and the time it takes to complete all procedures to trade. It shows that an increase in the number of documents required for export and import tends to increase the time cost of shipments. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364045
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Gender inequality and growth: the case of rich vs. poor countries
Amin, Mohammad; Kuntchev, Veselin; Schmidt, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015
This paper uses cross-section data for 107 countries to explore the relationship between gender inequality and economic … growth. The paper departs from the literature by using a broad measure of gender inequality that goes well beyond gender … inequality in education, which has been the focus of most studies. Another novelty of the paper lies in exploring heterogeneity …
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