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Climate change and infrastructure investment in developing countries: The case of Mozambique
Arndt, Channing; Chinowsky, Paul; Strzepek, Kenneth; … - 2011
Climate change may damage road infrastructure to the potential detriment of economic growth, particularly in developing countries. To quantitatively assess climate change's consequences, we construct a climate-infrastructure model based on stressor-response relationships and link this to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319890
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The (declining) role of households in sustaining China's economy: Structural path analysis for 1997 - 2007
Yang, Ling; Thurlow, James; Lahr, Michael L. - 2012
Current explanations for private consumption's diminished role in China focus on the expansion of exports and investments. Using structural path analysis, we find additional contributing factors. First, growth patterns during 1997-2007 favoured sectors with low production multipliers. Secondly,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333086
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Institutional reforms, private sector, and economic growth in Africa
Okey, Mawussé K. N. - 2011
The aim of this paper is to analyse the effect of institutional reforms on the revival of African economies. We study the impact of positive changes in business environment indicators of the Doing Business project and the Economic Freedom Index of the Heritage Foundation on the private sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280095
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Emerging evidence on the relative importance of sectoral sources of growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ogunleye, Eric Kehinde - 2011
Purposeful, well-targeted and successful transformation policies will be elusive for a country or region that does not understand the relative importance of its sectoral sources of growth. This study aims at eliciting our understanding in this respect by providing an assessment of the relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280105
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Tourism and economic growth: African evidence from panel vector autoregressive framework
Seetanah, Boopen; Padachi, Kessevan; Rojid, Sawkut - 2011
Using a panel vector autoregressive model this paper investigates the dynamic and endogeneous contribution of tourism to output based on a sample of 40 African countries for the period 1990 - 2006. Results from the study confirm tourism to be an important ingredient of African development...
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The (evolving) role of agriculture in poverty reduction: an empirical perspective
Christiaensen, Luc; Demery, Lionel; Kuhl, Jesper - 2010
The role of agriculture in development remains much debated. This paper takes an empirical perspective and focuses on poverty, as opposed to growth alone. The contribution of a sector to poverty reduction is shown to depend on its own growth performance, its indirect impact on growth in other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280231
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Aid, growth, and jobs
Fields, Gary - 2012
Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319934
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Macroeconomic policies, growth, employment, and inequality in Latin America
Damill, Mario; Frenkel, Roberto - 2012
This paper examines the macroeconomic policies and outcomes experienced by the Latin American economies during the period 1990-2010. Macroeconomic policies refer to exchange rates, monetary and aggregate fiscal policies, while macroeconomic outcomes, on the other hand, refer to the patterns of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319943
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Economic transformation and the diversification of livelihoods in rural Viet Nam
Newman, Carol; Kinghan, Christina - 2015
Diversification of household activities away from agriculture is a key characteristic of economic development. We … examine the extent of diversification among Vietnamese households, from agriculture into waged employment and entrepreneurship … and whether this diversification is welfare enhancing. We also examine the factors determining this transition from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418569
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The curse of the one-size-fits-all fix: Re-evaluating what we know about extractives and economic development
Lahn, Glada; Stevens, Paul - 2017
In the context of falls in extractive commodities prices since 2011, this paper examines the history of thinking about the interplay between extractives and economic development. Just as 'the resource curse' fails as a generic explanation on account of the huge diversity in country contexts, so...
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