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This paper examines the impact of trade facilitation on intra-African trade. The authors examine the role of trade facilitation reforms, such as increased port efficiency, improved customs, and regulatory environments, and upgrading services infrastructure on trade between African countries....
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income of the poor through growth. This new and unequivocal finding distinguishes the current study from past studies that …
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This paper examines support for reducing inequality and for income redistribution to specific groups in Europe and … of support for reducing inequality. …
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This paper presents a new methodology to measure inequality that optimally combines household survey information and …
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: a strong persistencein the growth rate of a country's exports. The authors shift the spotlight to this phenomenon and …
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The author provides theoretical and empirical evidence of a negative association between income inequality and real … exchange rates. First, he builds a theoretical model showing the transmission mechanism from inequality to real exchange rates … that hinge on four major objectives:accelerating equity-based growth, guaranteeing access to basic social services for the …
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involves the estimation of simple equations for GDP growth and conventional inequality measures, augmented to include, among … quality on growth and inequality. These two results combined suggest that infrastructure development can be highly effective … economically quite significant, and highlight the growth acceleration and inequality reduction that would result from increased …
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The median voter hypothesis is important to endogenous growth theories because it provides the political mechanisms … blunting incentives, reduce the country's growth rate. But he hypothesis was never properly tested because of lack of data on …
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The authors compare three approaches to linking representative-household macro models with micro household income data in terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of policy shocks. These approaches are a simple micro-accounting method, an extension of that...
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Policy recommendations to reduce the growth of public spending are haunted by the inevitability of two factors. First …
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