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Do Institutions and Culture Matter for Business Cycles?
Altug, Sumru; Canova, Fabio - 2012
We examine the relationship between institutions, culture and cyclical fluctuations for a sample of 45 European, Middle Eastern and North African countries. Better governance is associated with shorter and less severe contractions and milder expansions. Certain cultural traits, such as lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500213
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Family farming in the Near East and North Africa
Bush, Ray - 2016
The United Nations International Year of Family Farming 2014 came at an important time for the region of the Near East and North Africa (NENA). This is because the political turmoil and uprisings that have structured politics and social policy in the region since 2010 (and as we will also see,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786279
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Gender dimensions of inequality in the countries of Central Asia, South Caucasus, and Western CIS
Khitarishvili, Tamar - 2016
The collapse of the Soviet Union initiated an unprecedented social and economic transformation of the successor countries and altered the gender balance in a region that counted gender equality as one of the key legacies of its socialist past. The transition experience of the region has amply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784648
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Family farming in Europe and Central Asia: History, characteristics, threats and potentials
van der Ploeg, Jan Douwe - 2016
Most people have a clear understanding of what the term 'family farm' means. This is especially true in Europe. The term refers, in a seemingly straightforward and unambiguous way, to well-known and self-evident realities. It is solidly internalised in the memory of most people, even those with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786281
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The impact of geography an natural resource abundance on growth in Central Asia
Felipe, Jesus; Kumar, Utsav - 2010
This paper examines the growth experience of the Central Asian economies after the breakup of the Soviet Union. In particular, it evaluates the impact of being landlocked and resource rich. The main conclusions are: (1) Over the period 1994-2006, the landlocked resourcescarce developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281703
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The role of trade facilitation in Central Asia: A gravity model
Felipe, Jesus; Kumar, Utsav - 2010
With a decrease in formal trade barriers, trade facilitation has come into prominence as a policy tool for promoting trade. In this paper, we use a gravity model to examine the relationship between bilateral trade flows and trade facilitation. We also estimate the gains in trade derived from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286534
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Central Asia Oil and Gas Industry - The External Powers’ Energy Interests in Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
Raimondi, Pier Paolo - 2019
After the Soviet breakup, Central Asia has gained importance for several States because of its geographical location and abundance of hydrocarbon reserves. These hydrocarbon reserves are located mainly in three countries: Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Each of them has taken different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146424
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From low to high inflation: Implications for emerging market and developing economies
Ha, Jongrim; Kose, M. Ayhan; Ohnsorge, Franziska - 2022
Recent energy and food price surges, in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, have exacerbated inflation … pressuresthat are unusually high by the standards of the past two decades. High and rising inflation has prompted many emerging …. Inflation is expected to ease back towards targets over the medium-term as recent shocks unwind, but the 1970s experience is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013373855
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Commodity prices: Structural factors, financial markets and non-linear dynamics
Bastourre, Diego; Carrera, Jorge; Ibarlucia, Javier - 2010
Up to the financial slump of the second quarter of 2008 commodity prices grew fast for several consecutive years in a highly volatile context. Recent commodity fluctuations have raised both policy concerns and a prolific academic debate. This paper offers a coherent theoretical and empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325086
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Adjustment patterns to commodity terms of trade shocks: The role of exchange rate and international reserves policies
Aizenman, Joshua; Edwards, Sebastian; Riera-Crichton, Daniel - 2011
We analyze the way in which Latin American countries have adjusted to commodity terms of trade (CTOT) shocks in the 1970-2007 period. Specifically, we investigate the degree to which the active management of international reserves and exchange rates impacted the transmission of international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288117