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Is Kazakhstan vulnerable to natural resource curse?
Oskenbayev, Yessengali; Karimov, Aziz - 2013
This study utilizes panel data from 14 provinces of Kazakhstan and investigates the link between the point … down by the world market. On top of that, the manufacturing sector costs increase even more as a consequence of the price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204127
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Producing biofuels in low-income countries : an integrated environmental and economic assessment for Tanzania
Branca, Giacomo; Felix, Erika; Maltsoglou, Irini; … - 2014
This paper evaluates the greenhouse gas emissions and economic impacts from producing biofuels in Tanzania. Sequentially-linked models capture natural resource constraints; emissions from land use change; economywide growth linkages; and household poverty. Results indicate that there are economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010233107
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Another look at foreign aid
Ranis, Gustav - 2013
The foreign aid landscape has undergone a paradigm shift in the last few decades, with changes in the behaviour of 'traditional' donors and a new focus on selectivity in aid disbursement, as well as 'new' donors and South-South co-operation playing an increasingly important role. Amidst these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194863
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Inequality and growth : a review on a great open debate in economics
Baselgia, Enea; Foellmi, Reto - 2022
What is the relationship between inequality and growth? This question has occupied and fascinated social scientists for more than a century. This article critically reviews the recent empirical and theoretical literature on the complex interplay between inequality and economic growth. Inequality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012816433
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The corruption-growth relationship : do political institutions matter?
Saha, Shrabani; Sen, Kunal - 2019
Corruption is widely believed to negatively affect economic growth. However, many East and Southeast Asia countries either achieved or currently are achieving impressively rapid economic growth despite widespread corruption - the 'East Asian Paradox'. Is this negative relationship equally likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102930
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Interrelationships among health, environment quality, and economic activity : what consequences for economic convergence?
Drabo, Alassane - 2011
This paper examines the link between health indicators, environmental variables, and economic development, and the consequences of this relationship on economic convergence. In the early stage of economic development, the gain from income growth could be cancelled or mitigated by environmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009159760
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Climate change and developing country interests : cases from the Zambezi River Basin
Arndt, Channing; Chinowsky, Paul; Fant, Charles; … - 2015
We consider the interplay of climate change impacts, global mitigation policies, and the interests of developing countries to 2050. Focusing on Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, we employ a structural approach to biophysical and economic modeling that incorporates climate uncertainty and allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390407
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Global poverty, aid, and middle-income countries : are the country classifications moribund or is global poverty in the process of 'nationalizing'?
Sumner, Andrew - 2013
The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … first is that the thresholds used to classify countries by the World Bank and extensively used by aid agencies, albeit with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752790
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Climate change and economic growth prospects for Malawi : an uncertainty approach
Arndt, Channing; Schlosser, Adam; Strzepek, Kenneth M.; … - 2014
Malawi confronts a development imperative in a context of rising temperatures and deep uncertainty about precipitation trends. We evaluate the implications of climate change for overall growth and development prospects to 2050. We focus on three impact channels: agriculture, road infrastructure,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230922
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The world's two new middles : growth, precarity, structural change, and the limitations of the special case
Sumner, Andrew - 2016
poverty line. The patterns of growth, precarity, and structural change underlying the emergence of the world's two middles are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453151