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The monetary and fiscal history of Brazil, 1960-2016
Ayres, Joao; Garcia, Márcio Gomes Pinto; Guillen, Diogo; … - 2019
Brazil has had a long period of high inflation. It peaked around 100 percent per year in 1964, decreased until the first oil shock (1973), but accelerated again afterward, reaching levels above 100 percent on average between 1980 and 1994. This last period coincided with severe balance of...
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The dimensions of household food insecurity in Zimbabwe 1980 - 1991
Christensen, Garry; Stack, Jayne - 1992
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Inter-temporal changes in welfare : preliminary results from nine African countries
Stifel, David; Sahn, David E.; Younger, Stephen D. - 1999
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Social policy and social spending in Zimbabwe : 1980 to 2015
Mate, Rekopantswe - 2018
This paper examines social policy in the first three decades of Zimbabwe's independence. The analysis provides answers … to four sets of questions: What is the historical background of social policies in Zimbabwe and how has social spending … fairly and transparently, social policy deepens democracy. However, Zimbabwe's experience shows that mustering national …
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Contestation and resource bargaining in Zimbabwe : the minerals sector : prepared for the UNRISD project on Politics of Domestic Resource Mobilization for Social Development
Saunders, Richard - 2017
This paper explores the emergence and evolution of social contestation over mineral resources in Zimbabwe through three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793579
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High-value minerals and resource bargaining in a time of crisis : a case study on the diamond fields of Marange, Zimbabwe : prepared for the UNRISD project on Politics of Domestic...
Saunders, Richard - 2018
In 2006, the discovery of world-class deposits of alluvial diamonds in Marange District in eastern Zimbabwe offered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793581
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Export restrictions on minerals and metals : estimation and analysis of supply chain effects from Zimbabwe's chromium ore export ban
Perry, Anna; Schreiber, Samantha; Guberman, David - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014514397
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Uncertainty and economic activity : a global perspective
Cesa-Bianchi, Ambrogio; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Rebucci, … - 2014
The 2007-2008 global financial crisis and the subsequent anemic recovery have rekindled academic interest in quantifying the impact of uncertainty on macroeconomic dynamics. This paper studies the interrelation between financial markets volatility and economic activity assuming that both...
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Structural fiscal balances in Latin America and the Caribbean : new dataset and estimations
Ardanaz, Martín; Corbacho, Ana; Gonzáles, Alberto; … - 2015
In recent years, an increasing number of countries have began anchoring their fiscal policy frameworks in terms of rules that target the cyclically adjusted or structural (as opposed to actual) balance in an effort to overcome problems of procyclicality and fiscal volatility. The logic for doing...
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