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Gendered perspectives on economic growth and development in sub-Saharan Africa

Seguino, Stephanie; Were, Maureen - 2014

Researchers have linked sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) poor growth performance in recent decades to several factors … identifies linkages between gender, economic development, and growth, however. This paper explores the macro effects of gender … stimulus to growth in a number of SSA countries underscores the importance of assessing the gender effect of macroeconomic …

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The decline of the labour share in Mexico : 1990-2015

Ibarra-Niño, Carlos Alberto; Ros, Jaime - 2017

country's low aggregate rate of economic growth - is a crucial factor in the fall of the labour share in the formal sectors …. The paper concludes by discussing possible explanations for the paradox of the slow rate of economic growth in Mexico …

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Measuring the labour income share of developing countries : learning from social accounting matrices

Treeck, Katharina van - 2015

This paper is the first to address the challenges of measuring the labour income share of developing countries. The poor availability and reliability of national accounts data, and the fact that self-employed people, whose labour income is hard to capture, account for a major share of the...

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Empirical estimates of fiscal multipliers for South Africa

Kemp, Johannes Hermanus - 2020

Despite the frequent use of fiscal policy for stabilization purposes and the important role fiscal activism has played over the last decade, the size of budgetary multipliers (i.e. the output response following an exogenous shock to fiscal policy) has been heatedly debated at the theoretical and...

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A medium-sized, open-economy, fiscal DSGE model of South Africa

Kemp, Johannes Hermanus; Hollander, Hylton - 2020

Much of the research on fiscal multipliers has used reduced form modelling approaches. While these models have been extended to include richer controls and identification approaches, it remains unclear whether shocks identified capture the true structural shocks. An alternative way to identify...

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New evidence from the Government Revenue Dataset

McNabb, Kyle - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2016

Recent work on the relationship between tax structure and economic growth has offered little reliable evidence for … between the tax mix and the long-run economic growth rate is of vital importance to policymakers. Using the Government Revenue … personal income taxes or social contributions are found to be harmful for long-run per capita GDP growth rates. These findings …

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Fiscal pressure of migration & horizontal fiscal inequality : evidence from Indian experience

Chakraborti, Pinaki; Garg, Shatakshi - 2018

This paper examines the patterns and trends in inter-state migration across Indian states and observes that migration is affected by demographic profile as well as the fiscal profile of states. Econometric estimation suggests that level of vertical federal transfers and its horizontal...

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The copper sector, fiscal rules, and stabilization funds in Chile : scope and limits

Solimano, Andrés; Calderón Guajardo, Diego - 2017

Historically, Chile has been an economy dominated by mineral and agro-industrial products and subject to frequent external shocks particularly in copper prices. Since the 1980s, the authorities have developed various mechanisms to cope with these shocks and dampen their effects on the domestic...

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Aid and the fiscal and monetary responses to Dutch disease

Roe, Alan - 2011

This study assesses the fiscal and monetary management challenges that can be associated with large inflows of foreign aid. It provides a brief overview of the literature on Dutch Disease (DD) as applied to mineral wealth and then assesses the conventional policy responses that are available to...

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Boosting mineral revenues in Zambia : policy options for a sustainable fiscal regime

Mwaba, Andrew; Kayizzi-Mugerwa, Steve - 2021

Zambia has changed its mineral tax regime repeatedly during the past decades in a bid to raise mineral revenue, but with only modest success. This paper looks at what the country needs to do to create a mining fiscal regime that could sustain operations, boost output, and raise revenues without...

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