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According to the Washington Consensus, developing countries’ growth would benefit from reductions in barriers to trade. However, the empirical basis for judging trade reforms is weak. Econometrics are mostly ad hoc; results are typically not judged against models; policies are poorly measured;...
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different time spans within the 1998-2013 period. The empirical results show that total FDI contributes positively to the growth … in the analyzed countries. With regards to our main focus, the analysis of the decomposition of FDI finds that FDI in the … industrial and services sectors has a positive and significant effect on economic growth, whereas FDI in the construction sector …
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trade and FDI in manufactured goods has spurred the emergence of a largely private sector. On the other hand the high level …
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Infl ows of foreign knowledge are the key for developing countries to catch up with the world technology frontier. In … upgrade their productivity, the equilibrium exposure to ideas in the country remains below the frontier and domestic fi rms …
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In this paper we document the stylized facts about the relationship between international oil price swings, sovereign risk and macroeconomic performance of oil-exporting economies. We show that even though being a bigger oil producer decreases sovereign risk–because it increases a...
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As Latin America and the Caribbeans "Great Liberalization" reaches its 30th anniversary, we revisit the trade and growth debate by updating and expanding Estevadeordal and Taylors 2013 paper. To better understand the regions heterogeneity of policies and outcomes, we extend this analysis to...
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This study revisits the growth-finance nexus using a new econometric approach and unique data set. In particular by employing the smooth transition framework and annual time series data for Brazil from 1890 to 2003, we attempt to address on the one side, what is the relationship between...
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