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The COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented global crisis. The task for economic policy is to help keep people alive, enterprises afloat, and households out of poverty. The pandemic has macroeconomic dimensions. First, it affects macroeconomic stability and growth. Second, the tools of...
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Economic growth in Vietnam has been fairly resilient to the global commodity and financial crises, but it is unclear … left Vietnam little changed from a baseline (no crises) path in terms of aggregate indicators including the poverty rate … crisis leaving poverty rates below the (no crises) baseline. -- economic crisis ; growth ; poverty ; Vietnam …
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experiences of Mozambique and Vietnam - two countries with similar levels and compositions of economic growth but divergent … poverty outcomes. We find that the structure of the Vietnamese economy more naturally lends itself to generating broad … in Vietnam. Inadequate education, trade and transport systems are found to be more severe structural constraints to …
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We study structural transformation and change in the Vietnamese economy using two Social Accounting Matrices (SAMs … an important shift in terms of more economic integration with the global economy. Several analytical approaches are taken … in economic structure, and the results suggest that the Vietnamese economy has become internally more integrated over the …
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reliance on market forces in the allocation of resources and the determination of prices. The shift from an economy completely … roles. Significant strides have been made to further the transition from a centrally planned to a market economy, without …
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Recent work on the relationship between tax structure and economic growth has offered little reliable evidence for developing countries. Yet it is in such countries where the greatest changes in tax structure not only have been seen over the past 30 years but will likely continue to be seen in...
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Researchers have linked sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) poor growth performance in recent decades to several factors, including geography, institutions, and low returns to investment. This literature has not yet integrated the research that identifies linkages between gender, economic development,...
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This paper provides a synthesis of the four papers on the Latin American and Caribbean economies: Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic. It focuses on the following themes: macroeconomic stabilization and fiscal challenges, poverty and inequality, and the use of natural resources...
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This paper sets out to provide an introduction to two sets of questions, and to some relevant literature that has tried to answer them. The first set of questions concern what determines growth in low-income countries, and how the answers are conditioned by the history of fiscal policy design...
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This paper employs a cointegrated vector autoregressive model to assess the growth effect of aid in Uganda over the period 1972-2008. Results show that aid in Uganda has had both direct and indirect beneficial association with growth; that it is the productivity and not the stead state level of...
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