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Although there is wide recognition of the negative consequences of policy volatility for countries' long-term economic growth, there is limited empirical work on this subject. One of the reasons is the difficulty of measuring policy volatility over long periods of time, especially in developing...
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This study uses text mining techniques on almost 900 presidential "state-of-the-union"-type speeches from 10 Latin American countries from 1819 to 2016. The paper documents a sharp increase in recent decades in references to poverty and inequality. The study's long-term view shows that the way...
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. The authors hypothesize that it affects violence, misbehaviors, and academic outcomes by modulating emotional regulation …
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The share of people living in extreme poverty fell from 36 percent in 1990 to 10 percent in 2015 but has continued to increase in many fragile and conflict-affected areas where half of the extreme poor are expected to reside by 2030. These areas are also where the least evidence exists on how to...
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guerrillas and paramilitaries, gang violence among drug traffickers, and high common delinquency. In this context, households … authors test the hypothesis that households, when confronted with exogenous violence, reduce their investment and, moreover … strongly supports the hypothesis. The results shed new light on the economic impact of violence. The immediate reduction in …
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"This paper examines how households trade off migration and savings when subject to exogenous violence. The authors … propose that households under violence decide jointly on migration and saving, because a higher asset-stock is more difficult … to carry to a new place. When confronted with exogenous violence, households are expected to consider migration, and …
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