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the Vietnamese development experience. We find that while some of the difference between GDP and employment growth can be …
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This paper traces the role of local content in Zambia's mining sector in supporting industrialization and economic diversification. It assesses productive linkages and manufacturing competitiveness during import-substitution industrialization and post-1991 liberalization and privatization, and...
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regulatory rules in order to stimulate investment and growth, or make them more stringent in order to achieve public policy …
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This paper investigates the linkage between social protection and economic resilience. Does social protection have an impact on income? What role do social protection policies play in strengthening a society's capacity to overcome economic hardships? The recent crisis has brought these questions...
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This paper confirms recent evidence of a positive impact of aid on growth and widens the scope of evaluation to a range … of outcomes including proximate sources of growth (e.g., physical and human capital), indicators of social welfare (e … coherent and favorable pattern of results emerges. Aid has over the past forty years stimulated growth, promoted structural …
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Controversy over the aggregate impact of foreign aid has focused on reduced form estimates of the aid-growth link. The … causal chain, through which aid affects developmental outcomes including growth, has received much less attention. We address … impacts on growth through key intermediate outcomes. A coherent picture emerges: aid stimulates growth and reduces poverty …
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literature doubts the ability of foreign aid to foster economic growth and development. This paper assesses the aid-growth … a positive and statistically significant causal effect on growth over the long run, with confidence intervals conforming … to levels suggested by growth theory. Aid remains a key tool for enhancing the development prospects of poor countries. …
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The savings-growth nexus is widely acknowledged, both in policy and in the literature. But Kenya's numerous policy …, we find that in the long run, private saving is positively and significantly influenced by the per capita income growth … saving is positively and significantly influenced by the per capita income growth rate, inflation, and private sector credit …
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from shifts in technology. Countries experiencing input-driven growth in the secondary sector, such as Namibia and Eswatini …, have the potential to achieve growth through efficiency improvements and by adopting technology. Output growth in the …This paper aims to decompose the sources of growth in economies in the Southern African region's Common Monetary Area …
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they have played significant roles in the region's slow and episodic economic growth. Results from cross …-country regressions covering 31 Sub-Saharan African countries suggest that growth in Africa is not simply a question of capital … African countries to assimilate and effectively use knowledge and technology. Contrary to the views held by many analysts, the …
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